The trial of a man accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 is expected to begin on Oct 28, sources at the Nara District Court said on Thursday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 44, is accused of fatally shooting Abe with a homemade gun while he gave a...
Audrey Tang, 2025 World Leader in AIWS Award Recipient, coauthored an essay highlighting the need for AI tools that support meaningful civic discourse in the face of rampant polarization and mistrust. The essay is part of a series published by McGill's Centre for...
A PDF of this letter can be found here. Boston, 28 August 2020 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Cabinet Secretariat, 1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 - 8968, Japan Dear Prime Minister Abe, We write to offer our respect and to thank you for your work to...
The Tetrad Automated Causal Discovery Platform was awarded the Super Artificial Intelligence Leader (SAIL) award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai in July. The award recognizes fundamental advances in the basic theory, methods, models...
Much of artificial intelligence (AI) in common use is dedicated to predicting people’s behavior. It tries to anticipate your next purchase, your next mouse-click, your next job move. But such techniques can run into problems when they are used to analyze data for...
On August 21, 2020, Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Alphabet-Google, was the keynote speaker of the United Nations 2045 Roundtable. He talked about the need to create a new ecosystem with Internet and AI that is for...
Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, and AIWS.net, co-author of the Social Contract 2020, spoke at the AIWS Roundtable, co-organized by the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum on August 13, 2020. He...
Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, WLA-CdM Member, Prime Minister of Poland (1992-1993), spoke at the AIWS Roundtable “Digital Technologies, Elections, and Democracy in times of COVID-19, co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum...