On October 4, 2025, at 11:00 am, the Memorial Church at Harvard University will host a celebration of the life and legacy of Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr., who passed away in May at the age of 88. Professor Nye was a distinguished thinker and one of the founding...
Issued October 5, 2025 | Boston, MA The Boston Global Forum (BGF) shares the deep concerns expressed by Professor Yoshua Bengio, one of the “Godfathers of AI,” regarding the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence systems capable of deception, self-directed...
Australian Senator Kimberley Kitching, co-chair of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), had a very impressive speech at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference – Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the aftermath of COVID-19 July 1, 2020,...
Political messaging can have a huge impact on public responses to crises. In the US, academics warn that divisions between Republican and Democratic lawmakers are wrecking efforts to contain the virus. Now, a new AI tool has shown just how fractured their rhetoric has...
Press Release, Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation Boston, July 1, 2020 Technology policy expert Marc Rotenberg will join the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation to launch a new Center on Artificial Intelligence and...
Co-founders and Mentors of AIWS.net - Governor Michael Dukakis, Professor Thomaas Patterson (Harvard), Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), Professor Alex Sandy Pentland (MIT), Professor David Silberweig (Harvard), and Nguyen Anh Tuan - spoke and dialogued at the United...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a great disaster for humanity. Today this disaster poses urgent problems to the world that need to be addressed to protect and strengthen Democracy. This disaster stems partly from the fact that China's leaders and political systems...
We have human-sounding AI technology that responds to customer service calls and helps customers navigate the issues they face. We have smart assistants that wake their users up on time, share information about the weather outside and report on the latest news. We...