Beacon Papers No.5: Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age
Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 31, 2026 In July, a machine exercised power that no human had knowingly authorized. The instinctive remedy is to put a human back in command — but that is only half an answer,...
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so that OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, on a campus whose full cost could approach $500...
Shinzo Abe’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Enters the AI Age — From Freedom of Navigation to AIWS Trust Infrastructure
On July 30, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a discussion on the next steps for the United States–Japan alliance, focused on deterrence, cybersecurity, and Indo-Pacific...
From Alphago To The Humanoid Robot
How DeepMind Moved AI from Thinking to Acting The history of artificial intelligence has long been told as a sequence of intellectual victories. On July 30, 2026, Google DeepMind added a different...
Global Consultation on the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS have launched a global consultation to develop the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — an initiative to establish the foundational...
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
Audrey Tang calls for AI to be trained in spirit of cooperation
Taiwan’s cyber ambassador Audrey Tang participating in an online session at Asahi World Forum 2025 (Shingo Kuzutani) Audrey Tang, the...
Minister Lin Chia-lung touts “tech governance” at AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei
At the AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei, Taiwan’s foreign minister, Lin Chia-lung, argued that Taiwan’s democratic development and...
Yuval Noah Harari at WEF Davos 2026: When AI Controls Language, It Shapes Society
At the World Economic Forum 2026, historian-philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, in conversation with neuroscientist Irene Tracey, warned...
Hoa Lam Group Launches Implementation of the AIWS Healthcare Model and “Angel for Everyone”
In a letter to UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies Amandeep Singh Gill, Madam Tran Thi...