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High-Level Roundtable on AI Strategy with General Secretary Tô Lâm and Vietnam’s Leadership – London, October 28, 2025
On October 28, 2025, at the historic Raffles Hotel London, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) co-organized a high-level strategic event where General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Tô Lâm and senior Vietnamese leaders met with world-renowned strategists and...
A Regulatory Framework That Harnesses the Power of AI to Combat Global Pandemics
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has grown increasingly popular for its ability to process large sets of data. The term “AI” describes algorithms that can be taught to identify patterns or predict outcomes. If the algorithm is primed with a teaching set of data, then...
Judea Pearl: My ideas would cause a revolution at No 10
Dominic Cummings has promised to revolutionise the civil service. On his much-discussed and semi-comprehensible blog, Boris Johnson’s consigliere has put out the word: out with the smug Oxbridge mandarins, in with the brilliant weirdos, misfits, data dorks and...
The AI Chronicle and AIWS House start today, June 6, 2020
The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, sets the foundation for a new historical chapter: the emergence of AI societies. Governor Michael Dukakis stressed the importance of studying history to prevent past mistakes from repeating in the...
Alex Pentland spoke at the launching of the Proseprity Collaborative, a Coalition of the World Bank, EY, MIT, New America, and Michael Dukakis Institute
On May 27, Professor Alex Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of AIWS.net, co-author of the Social Contract 2020, spoke at the World Bank’s The Prosperity Collaborative’s inaugural online event. The Prosperity Collaborative is a coalition of...
Is AI Our Final Invention?
The future of artificial intelligence can be either exciting or worrisome depending on who you talk to. Some believe that AI may take over humanity, while others believe that we’re far away from AI achieving anything close to human intelligence. One author recently...
Artificial General Intelligence – What Does It Mean And Should We Be Worried About It?
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - a hypothetical machine capable of any and all of the intellectual tasks performed by humans - is considered by many to be a pipe dream. A long-standing feature of science fiction, AGI has achieved a cultural reputation of both...