Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a distinguished member of the Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers and one of the most influential scholars in international relations, passed away on May 6, 2025, at the age of 88. Foreign Affairs has highlighted several of his most impactful...
Hanoi, Vietnam — May 5, 2025 This morning, at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, the Vietnam Banking Times, in collaboration with the State Bank of Vietnam, hosted the high-level conference "Positioning Vietnam's Banks as Global Brands". The event attracted prominent leaders,...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today seeking regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. EPIC – a public interest group that focuses on data privacy issues – said it...
One of the biggest challenges operations groups will face over the coming year will be learning how to support AI- and ML-based applications. On one hand, ops groups are in a good position to do this; they’re already heavily invested in testing, monitoring, version...
Companies specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare are in “rude health” and are set for exponential growth over the next five years, according to a new report. The report by adviser and broker finnCap outlines the companies that are employing AI to...
If there is one technology that has become the buzzword of this decade, it would be artificial intelligence (AI). In the beginning of 2010s, consumer natural-language processing (NLP) allowed us to talk to our phones and control smart home appliances reliably. At the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has traditionally been deployed in the cloud, because AI algorithms crunch massive amounts of data and consume massive computing resources. But AI doesn’t only live in the cloud. In many situations, AI-based data crunching and decisions...
Thinkers and organizations called to build a new social contract in digital age. Some examples are “Do we need a new social contract?” by Maurizio Bussolo and Marc Fleurbaey on Brookings Institution April 11, 2019; “A social contract to transform our world by 2030” at...