Boston, November 3, 2024 On this special day, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) joyously celebrates the 91st birthday of its esteemed co-founder and chair, Governor Michael Dukakis. His unwavering dedication to public service, education, and global collaboration has left...
Boston, November 3, 2024 Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens, As we celebrate Governor Michael Dukakis’s 91st birthday today, we find ourselves reflecting on the journey we have all shared and the challenges that lie ahead. Our world stands at a crossroads, faced with...
The prime minister Abe called for the reform of the World Trade Organization, which has been criticized for not functioning properly. He also stressed to leaders the necessity of compiling a new global taxation rule aimed at imposing greater taxes on large information technology companies by next year.
Automation is to achieve efficiency. What if AI sees humanity itself as the thing to be optimized? The New York Times this week wrote about the possibility of robots replacing your bosses. It is happening indeed, kind of. Amazon’s complex algorithms are already used...
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding with projects such as IBM Watson, DeepMind’s AlphaZero, and voice recognition used in virtual assistants including Amazon's Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google's Home Assistant. Because of the increasing impact of AI...
Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, co-founder of the Social Contract 2020, directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped to create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in...
Shinzo Abe’s visit to Iran this week, the first to that country by a Japanese prime minister in more than 40 years, is the latest in a series of high-minded but long-shot efforts to lift Japan’s influence on the global stage. Mr. Abe, who flew to Tehran on Wednesday,...
Cerf, universally regarded as one of the “co-fathers” of the Internet, presented “What IF Machines Thought Like Humans?” as part of Purdue University’s Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of the University’s Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign. Cerf’s talk aligned with...