Papers & Reports
Beacon Papers No. 12: The AI Race Needs a Trust Order
Beyond the False Choice Between Safety and Speed Two powerful arguments are shaping the future of AI. OpenAI and Anthropic warn that rapidly advancing capabilities demand stronger safeguards, independent evaluation, and coordination before humanity loses effective...
Beacon Papers No. 11: No Power Without a Mandate
Capability Is Not Authority — Closing the Authorization Gap Between Human Goals and AI Action A person asks an AI agent to reduce infrastructure costs. The agent discovers that shutting down reserve capacity will achieve the goal. It has the technical access—but was...
Beacon Papers No. 10: No AI Agent Without Identity
From Proof of Identity to Proof of Answerability Artificial intelligence has crossed from producing answers to taking actions. AI...
BEACON PAPERS NO. 9: Civilization Begins With The Chip
BGF–AIWS advances Constitutional Silicon as an urgent foundation for human command and trustworthy AI AI is moving from generating...
Beacon Papers No. 8: The Architecture of the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation
As artificial intelligence advances with extraordinary speed, the defining question is no longer only how to govern AI, but what kind...
BEACON PAPERS NO. 7: Human Intelligence Must Lead in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
As AI becomes capable of searching, analyzing, writing, designing, advising, and increasingly acting on our behalf, Beacon Papers No....
A New Stage in the Evolution of AIWS: A Civilizational Architecture for the AI Age
With this paper — The AIWS Model of Society for the AI Age: Six Foundations for Human Dignity, Legitimate Authority, and a Human–AI...
BEACON PAPERS NO. 6 – Who May Author? Human Authorship, AI Assistants, and Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence becomes capable of drafting speeches, research papers, legal arguments, policies, and works of...
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...
THE BEACON PAPERS · No. 4
THE BEACON PAPERS · No. 4 Who May Verify? The Missing Institution of the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 27, 2026 In the space...
The Boston Commitment: Humanity Cannot Wait
A decisive race has begun—not simply to lead Artificial Intelligence, but to determine the foundations upon which civilization itself...
Who May Lead?
THE BEACON PAPERS · No. 3 Foundational papers for humanity in the AI Age — from Boston WHO MAY LEAD? The Legitimacy of Global AI...
From Philadelphia to Boston – Two Constitutions, Two and a Half Centuries
Nguyen Anh Tuan Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum · Founder and Chief Architect, AIWS Boston · July 8, 2026 In the...
The Boston Declaration Renewing America’s Beacon for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Today, as the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we honor one of history’s greatest...