The Shinzo Abe Film, the inaugural production of the AIWS Film Park’s Esteemed Leaders Series, honors Shinzo Abe, recipient of the 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award. This cinematic tribute celebrates his visionary leadership, which reshaped Japan’s role...
The AIWS Film Park, launched by the Boston Global Forum on March 11, 2025, proudly unveils its Esteemed Leaders Series, a groundbreaking collection of short films celebrating the lives and legacies of remarkable global figures. Beginning with recipients of the World...
On May 27, Professor Alex Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of AIWS.net, co-author of the Social Contract 2020, spoke at the World Bank’s The Prosperity Collaborative’s inaugural online event. The Prosperity Collaborative is a coalition of...
The future of artificial intelligence can be either exciting or worrisome depending on who you talk to. Some believe that AI may take over humanity, while others believe that we’re far away from AI achieving anything close to human intelligence. One author recently...
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - a hypothetical machine capable of any and all of the intellectual tasks performed by humans - is considered by many to be a pipe dream. A long-standing feature of science fiction, AGI has achieved a cultural reputation of both...
On May 20, 2018, “The Book of Why” by professor Judea Pearl was published. Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 20, 2020: “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” provides us with the new tools needed to navigate the uncharted waters of causality for...
COVID-19 doesn’t create cookie-cutter infections. Some people have extremely mild cases while others find themselves fighting for their lives. Clinicians are working with limited resources against a disease that is very hard to predict. Knowing which patients are most...
Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with. In less than a decade, computers have become extremely good at diagnosing diseases, translating languages, and transcribing speech....