AIWS is excited to announce that Walter Langelaar, co-creator of the world's first AI politician, SAM, will be speaking at our annual BGF-G7 Summit Conference in April. Mr. Langelaar and his co-researchers have designed an artificial intelligence that's creating a...

Imagine this: A new political candidate who cannot lie, who listens directly to voters, and who always has fresh ideas. The catch? They’re an AI. Once just science fiction - the subject of TV shows like Black Mirror - researchers in New Zealand are developing an...

Next Generation Democracy (NGD) is an initiative led by Club de Madrid to facilitate discussion and promote democracy worldwide. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the world saw a dramatic increase in democratic governments. In recent years, however, the resurgence of...

With automated driving technology getting closer to taking the streets, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is reconsidering its own rules and regulations. This new technology will make many current traffic laws obsolete, which USDOT acknowledges. "Right now...

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, just announced a new multi-million dollar research initiative to teach artificial intelligence “common sense.” His initiative is called Project Alexandria and is geared toward creating a central database of knowledge for AI. In the...

Last week, a brief feud erupted between two of the brightest thinkers on the topic of human progress: Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and tech CEO Elon Musk. It began with a recent interview of Pinker in Wired (for his new book Enlightenment Now), where he said...