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A lull in the tempest: Four Pillars week

A lull in the tempest: Four Pillars week

This has been a relatively slower week for international developments, but let us speak of the Four Pillars. India and Europe, two Pillars, have been strengthening their ties in the past week. India has now approved the construction port to improve trade with Europe,...

Mistrust toward Democratic Institutions is found in Western Europe

Mistrust toward Democratic Institutions is found in Western Europe

Collaborating with Pew Research Center and the IE School of International Relations, the WLA-CdM hosted an event where a finding of Pew Research Center was published  on political attitudes in Western Europe. In late 2017, a poll was conducted in eight countries of...

AI attack is not likely to happen

AI attack is not likely to happen

“There is no likelihood that cyberattack will happen in the near future”, said Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. As reported by Computer Weekly, Mr. Hypponen, a researcher in machine learning-based security for several years, denied the AI’s ability...

The leapfrogging strategy in AI for Vietnam

The leapfrogging strategy in AI for Vietnam

Professor Nazli Choucri, Professor of MIT and Board of Director’s member of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), delivered a speech on AI strategy for Vietnam on ThoiDaiAi.net - an AI information portal in Vietnam. "This is the time to...

AI innovators opposed to autonomous killer weapons

AI innovators opposed to autonomous killer weapons

In the annual International Joint Conference on AI on July 18, AI innovators agreed to a pledge against weaponizing technologies introduced by the Future of Life Institute. According to National Public Radio’s article, a recent demonstration in France of an autonomous...

AI is essential factor in leveraging data to keep track of happiness

AI is essential factor in leveraging data to keep track of happiness

Dr. Kazuo Yano, Chief Engineer of Hitachi, Ltd. and member of MDI’s AIWS Standards and Practice Committee, said about “AI: The new measurement of happiness” at the Global Dialogue for Happiness in the sixth World Government Summit in Dubai. As reported by Mena Herald,...