On August 21, 2020, at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable organized by the United Nations Academic Impact, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Co-founder of AIWS.net, presented AI World Society City (AIWS City) after Keynote Speaker Vint Cerf presented “The People Centered Economy: The New AI and Internet Ecosystem for Work and Life”. AIWS City is virtual city that applies the standards of “the Social Contract 2020”, “People Centered Economy”, “Trustworthy Economy”, “Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civic Society”, and “AI-Government”, with AIWS Value to foster Vint Cerf’s idea that “all people can create value for each other”.
Here is a brief overview of AIWS City:
- Purpose:
- To practice concepts from “the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”, the People Centered Economy, and the Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civic Society.
- To use the Internet and AI to shape brighter futures and to create an ecosystem for work and life with the philosophy of the People Centered Economy.
- The AIWS City is an application and practice of the thoughts and ideas of Vint Cerf.
- Principles and Concepts:
- Vint Cerf’s idea:” “All people can create value for each other. A good economy has an ecosystem of organizations that lets that happen, in the most meaningful and fulfilling ways.”
- AIWS City is virtual city that applies the standards of “the Social Contract 2020”, “People Centered Economy”, “Trustworthy Economy”, “Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civic Society”, and “AI-Government”.
- The features of Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civil Society are knowledge, critical thinking and social responsibility.
- AIWS City can assist citizens to become more thoughtful by enhancing knowledge, critical thinking and social responsibility
- AIWS created the concept of AIWS Value. AIWS Value: traditional value (products, services, data, etc.) + social values (contributions), recognize and exchange traditional and social values.
- AIWS City will operate based on AIWS Value in order to create a good Ecosystem of the People Centered Economy – “all people can create value for each other”.
- Model of AIWS City:
AIWS City includes: Government of City, Citizens, Companies, and Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civil Society
Government: use AI-Government (Government assisted by AI, Data Science, and Internet)
Build infrastructure for AI-Government based on Internet and Data Science (AI).
Government creates social works for citizens and supports special education program for citizens.
Companies: apply Trustworthy Economy and support the People Centered Economy.
Citizens: create values from ecosystem of AIWS City.
Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civil Society in AIWS City: promote “the Social Contract 2020” and AIWS Value, as well as collaborate to create the Ecosystem of AIWS City.
- Implementation:
Key people: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Alex Pentland, Vint Cerf, Michael Dukakis, and Board Members of Michael Dukakis Institute, key leaders of AIWS.net.