The EU and U.S. have issued a Joint Statement creating a framework for fair, balanced, and mutually beneficial trade and investment, building on the July 27 political agreement between President Ursula von der Leyen and President Donald Trump. The deal restores...
By Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan Boston, August 18, 2025 Dear BGF–AIWS Family Members, We live in a time of profound change. Technology—especially artificial intelligence—is reshaping our world, creating both extraordinary opportunities and urgent...
Professor Judea Pearl, 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award and Mentor of AIWS.net, contributes his new methodology in AI to the United Nations Centennial e-book. He wrote: This is the first time I am using the word “domestication” to describe what happened in...
The Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute wish to congratulates the EU Commission for the “Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL LAYING DOWN HARMONISED RULES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT) AND...
AIWS City is an initiative for the United Nations Centennial. The AIWS City to be an application and a practice of what Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, has called “The People Centered Economy.” The core concept, in Vint Cerf’s words is as follows: “All people can...
On May 27, 2021, the United Nations Academic Impact and the Boston Global Forum will co-launch the e-book “The United Nations Centennial: Remaking the world – The Age of Global Enlightenment”. Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum and Mr. Ramu...
I would like to warmly compliment Prof. Choucri for a masterly compilation of a concise, and yet comprehensive, paper outlining the elements of an AIIA, capturing the intricacies of the issues involved and appreciating the breadth of the challenges. She makes the...
The China question: Beijing supports banning the use of these weapons, but not their development or production. The U.S. and NATO have argued that they need to keep autonomous lethal weapons in their arsenals as deterrence and defense against “malign” actors — all...