The Boston Global Forum is proud to announce its collaboration with the Army Innovation Park (AIP) in Nha Trang, Vietnam, to establish the AI of History House as part of the AIWS Initiative. This groundbreaking project aims to curate and present the history of...
Two years since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Roundup on the Four Pillars
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Artificial Intelligence Powering Boom in Israel’s Digital Health Sector
TEL AVIV, Israel, 16 April 2019--Israel’s reams of electronic medical records –health data on its population of around 8.9 million people-- are proving fruitful for a growing number of digital health startups training algorithms to do things like early detection of...
China’s Bureaucrats Are Increasingly Judged on What They Do After Work
For Chinese bureaucrats, getting a promotion isn’t just tied to their performance on the job -- it’s increasingly about how well they behave in their leisure time. For Chinese bureaucrats, getting a promotion isn’t just tied to their performance on the job -- it’s...
Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military
President Trump and a top U.S. general spoke with Google’s CEO about the U.S. tech company’s AI ventures in China President Donald Trump and his top U.S. military adviser met with Google’s CEO about concerns that Silicon Valley’s AI collaborations in China may benefit...
How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
China's aggressive artificial intelligence plan still does not match up to US progress in the field in many areas, despite the hype. Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up...
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: AI will change 100 percent of jobs over the next decade
IBM’s Chair, CEO and President Ginni Rometty has a powerful message for workers and employers in all strata of society: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway and it is shaping up to be one of the most significant challenges and opportunities of our lifetime. We...
Artificial-intelligence pioneers win $1 million Turing Award
To learn who’s taking home the Turing Award, people might turn to their trusted talking bots, like Siri or Alexa. Or, in fact, some of the very technology the three winners helped bring to life. Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun have earned what’s often...