Yasuhide Nakayama, former State Minister of Defense of Japan, spoke at the BGF Conference "Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity," held on April 30, 2024 at Harvard University Loeb House via video call from Japan. Here are some of his key notes:...
TikTok ban discourse, again; national security aid package follow-up: Four Pillars Roundup
With the recent American foreign military aid package finally passing Congress and signed by the White House, one of its corollary, the bill to ban TikTok, is regaining traction in public debate. Since the last round of discourse, the positions of both sides have not...
AI Applications in Education
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an increasing part of our daily lives, it’s no wonder that educational institutions are racing to catch up with the need to develop more talent to keep the engine of AI development running. Increasingly, educational institutions...
How WeChat censors private conversations, automatically in real time
WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways. Based in China and boasting over 1.1 billion global users, it’s one of the world’s most advanced and popular apps. New research from the University of Toronto’s CitizenLab pulls the curtain...
AI World Society Young Leaders
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation announces the AI World Society (AIWS) Young Leader Program. People under 35 years old in the world can apply and attend projects of AI World Society Initiative as build AIWS Ethics Index, the Social Contract...
The Social Contract 2020 Discussion: A Need of Standards to Connect Nations
In a discussion to build the Social Contract 2020, Professor David Silbersweig, Academic Dean, Harvard Medical School, contributed ideas toward it. In Internet, Data, and AI age, citizens and governments are connected with TCP/IP Standard of Internet, the Internet...
Vint Cerf’s, Father of the Internet, Thoughts on the Social Contract 2020
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of Internet, discuss about The Social Contract 2020: Vint Cerf recollects the founding of the idea of the social contract by Rousseau, which is about "what the relationship between citizens and the government is." The people in theory...
Governor Michael Dukakis and Vint Cerf discuss cybersecurity and peace
On July 13, 2019, in Cambridge, MA, Governor Michael Dukakis, had dinner and discussed with Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of Internet. Mr. Vint Cerf is honored as World Leader in AI World Society. Governor Dukakis and Honorary Cerf discussed politics, cybersafe,...