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...

Tuan Nguyen, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, a Boston-based think tank aimed at reducing international conflict, addressed world leaders at the recent Club de Madrid roundtable held in San Francisco. Club de Madrid membership is made up exclusively of former prime...

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was appointed President and Chair of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) last week. His appointment was agreed upon unanimously by the GGGI Assembly. In this new role, he will help lead the GGGI in its mission to reduce...

This Monday, March 5th, the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference will be held at Harvard University. This conference was founded to educate and connect data scientists, and especially to empower women in the field. This event is open to the public and will be...

SpaceX just launched two test satellites, Tintin A and Tintin B, which the company and its head Elon Musk hope will be the beginning of a space-based broadband network dubbed Starlink. Both launched on a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket and were orbited successfully. “First two...

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:...