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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AI and Cybersecurity at TCU – Charting the Path to Innovation
In a momentous event held on January 18, 2024, the Telecommunication University (TCU) in Nha Trang played host to a seminal seminar on AI and Cybersecurity. The keynote speaker, Sharad Sharma, Co-founder, and Chair of ISpirt (Indian Software Product Industry Round...
Club de Madrid’s Open Letter to the G20: ‘We, not They’
On November 30, Maria Elena Aguero, Secretary-General of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), and her colleagues as the Members of the Mercy Corps European Leadership Council wrote an open letter to G20 leaders with the aim to claim the equal rights...
AI World Society Distinguished Lecture
On December 12, 2018, Michael Dukakis Insitute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) honored Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Shadow Digital Minister, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth, as the first AI...
AIWS Report about AI Ethics: Government AIWS Ethics and Practices Index
The Michael Dukakis Institute recently conducted a research called ‘AIWS Report about AI Ethics’ in effort to reach a common accord of respect for the norms, laws, and conventions in the AI world in a diversity approaches and frameworks in countries. The report...
The concept and criteria of the AIWS Ethics and Practices Index
The AIWS Ethics and Practices Index of the Michael Dukakis Institute measures the extent to which a government in its AI activities respects human values and contributes to the constructive use of AI. This Index has four categories. The Index has four categories:...
An AI accelerator chip can transfer information at the speed of light
A startup called Lightelligence recently developed a new AI chip power machine learning using light instead of electrons. Since the emergence of deep learning, it has proven to be of great use. For example, it enables machines to execute with more than just...
3 Misconception about AI, and what should be done
AI has been thriving and living among us for the last decade. It has enhanced the way human’s efficiency greatly. Even so, there is still a widespread fear over the threat of AI based on people’s common misconceptions. Here are the three key confusions need to be...