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...
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Boston Global Forum to unveil the Special Report on Peace and Security Solutions at the Shinzo Abe Initiative Conference
In a significant development aimed at addressing global conflict and instability, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) has announced its forthcoming unveiling of the Shinzo Abe Initiative Special Report on Solutions for Peace and Security in Conflict and War Areas. This...
Is the “Populist” Tide Retreating?
Professor Joseph Nye, member Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers, has thoughts about Populism on Project-Syndicate: Strong support for immigration and globalization in the US sits uneasily with the view that “populism” is a problem. In fact, the term remains vague...
Some of the smartest people in technology pondered how to make AI trustworthy
New York Times recently reported about the New York Summit/Leading in the Age of AI Conference in Half Moon Bay, California, where some of the top minds shared their outlooks for AI and its applications. The summit ended with a lot of room to debate about what we...
The exciting course “Shaping Work of the Future”
We are delighted to introduce the exciting course “Shaping Work of the Future” of Professor Thomas Kochan, member of the Editorial Board of Shaping Futures Magazine, a publication of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation. Here is a letter from...
AI tool for cancer diagnosis wins FDA breakthrough status
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making inroads in healthcare facilities management, as an aid to improve efficiency in such areas as scheduling, staffing and billing, AI as a diagnostic tool in patient care is still in its infancy. Paige.AI is calling itself the...
China’s masses of data give it an edge in AI—but they may not forever
Last Thursday, MIT hosted a celebration for the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, a $1 billion effort to create an interdisciplinary hub of AI research. During an onstage conversation between Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of investment firm...
China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership
In spite of tensions with the US and its allies, Huawei is rapidly building a suite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings unmatched by any other company over the world. Huawei has big ambitious vision stretches from AI chips for data centers and mobile devices to...