December 12, 2023 Introduction: The astonishing achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Transformer models have exceeded the expectations of even their most ardent supporters. Foundational advances were made in the discovery of the power of Markov...
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...
At our April BGF-G7 Summit, AIWS will announce its Ethical Framework for AI, which outlines beneficial and safe uses for the technology. The framework will involve seven layers, which are listed below, covering concepts for public policy, technology, ethics, and more:...
AI technology is advancing rapidly and, with it, the risks of it being hijacked for malicious purposes. 25 experts recently published the Malicious AI Report, which explores threats to digital, political, and physical security within the next five years that might be...
This weekend, the World Leadership Alliance - Club de Madrid is hosting the Next Generation Democracy (NGD) Round Table for North America in San Francisco. At the event’s core is a discussion on the current state and future of democracy, including discussion about...
Researchers from Colombia University have created a new program called DeepXplore, a program that reverse engineers how AI learn, in order to find bugs. One application is self-driving cars, which depend on visual data to form neural networks and “learn.” Columbia...
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a speech on the challenges facing her country and Europe, and what can be done to meet them. Opening by invoking the centennial of World War I, she reminded the audience of the...
Elon Musk has recently stepped down from OpenAI, a research group on ethical applications of AI that he co-founded in 2015. OpenAI cited a desire to avoid any conflict of interest for Musk between the group and his car company Tesla, which has begun its own research...