 Nguyen Anh Tuan introduced AIWS solutions at the Riga Conference 2020, such as Social Contract for the AI Age, AI and Digital International Accord, Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance, and the AIWS City at the Plenary Session “DEMOCRACY, TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INFODEMIC”
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here, reaching far beyond technological developments and future economies. Its speed is exponential, causing deep systemic change in every aspect of human life and societal transformation. Its nature is both – highly creative and disruptive. One example is modern information technologies. They enable the spread of information at such a speed and volume, that it affects national and international economies, politics and security in ways utterly disproportionate with the root realities. An infodemic is a blend of “information” and “epidemic” that typically refers to a rapid, overwhelming and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about an issue. An infodemic could do more harm than a global health crisis. The infodemic has been a factor in implementing a range of COVID-19 pandemic related government policies.
Līga Raita Rozentāle, Senior Director of European Cybersecurity Policy, Microsoft
Ieva Ilvesa, Adviser to the President of Latvia for Information and Digital Policy
Prof. Filippo Menczer, Director of the Observatory on Social Media, Indiana University
Hannes Krause, Head of Strategic Communication at the Government Office of the Republic of Estonia
Moderator: Dr. Gunda Reire, Advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Panelists discuss and answer questions: What are the tangible consequences of an infodemic in terms of economies, politics and security? Have new technologies influenced our perception and core value systems, for better or worse? How could governments use new technologies to shape discourses for long-term, strategic objectives?
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan called for an AI and Digital International Accord. The Riga Conference 2020 was attended by the European Commission President and Executive Vice President, as well as presidents, prime ministers from the Baltic region, ministers of the UK, France, Canada, Japan, and legislators of the US, EU, Australia, etc.
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Pope Francis has emerged as a leading world figure the field of AI policy. In the November intentions, an opportunity for Catholics to deepen their prayers, the Pope warned that AI could exacerbate economic inequalities around the world if a common good is not pursued. “Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the epochal change we are experiencing. Robotics can make a better world possible if it is joined to the common good. Indeed, if technological progress increases inequalities, it is not true progress. Future advances should be oriented towards respecting the dignity of the person and of Creation,” in the words of the November 2020 prayer intention. The Pope asked that followers, “pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind.”
The Pope’s November intention is his most recent comment on AI. Earlier this year, the Pope endorsed the Rome Call for AI Ethics. The goal of the Rome Call is to “support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of responsibility among organizations, governments and institutions.”
The key principles of the Rome Call are 1) Transparency: AI systems must be explainable; 2) Inclusion: the needs of all human beings must be taken into consideration so that everyone can benefit and all individuals can be offered the best possible conditions to express themselves and develop; 3) Responsibility: those who design and deploy the use of AI must proceed with responsibility and transparency; 4) Impartiality: do not create or act according to bias, thus safeguarding fairness and human dignity; 5) Reliability: AI systems must be able to work reliably; 6) Security and privacy: AI systems must work securely and respect the privacy of users. These principles are described as “fundamental elements of good innovation.” The Rome Call for AI Ethics was endorsed by Private companies, and representatives of the Italian government, and the European Parliament at an event, organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, held at the Vatican earlier this year.
Pope Francis said at the time, "The Call’s intention is to create a movement that will widen and involve other players: public institutions, NGOs, industries and groups to set a course for developing and using technologies derived from AI.” The Pope also said that the Rome Call for Ethics is the “first attempt to formulate a set of ethical criteria with common reference points and values, offering a contribution to the development of a common language to interpret what is human.”
Pope Francis is one of several world leaders who has raised concern about AI. Several years ago, the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking warned that AI posed an existential threat to humanity. He told the BBC, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." The inventor Elon Musk told a MIT conference in 2014 that A.I. was probably humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have also raised concerns about AI, particularly autonomous weapons.
Many world leaders have called for regulatory oversight of AI.
Marc Rotenberg, Director
Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute
The Center for AI and Digital Policy, founded in 2020, advises governments on technology policy
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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Rodney Brooks published “Elephants Don’t Play Chess” in 1990. The paper proposed a “group-up approach” to developing AI, in contrast with Classical AI. Brooks dubbed this approach “Nouvell AI”. The paper can be read and downloaded here.
In the abstract, Brooks wrote - “We explore a research methodology which emphasizes ongoing physical interaction with the environment as the primary source of constraint on the design of intelligent systems. We show how this methodology has recently had significant successes on a par with the most successful classical efforts.”
Rodney Brooks is an Australian roboticist. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Brooks also advocated for an actionist approach in terms of robotics. He also linked robotics to Artificial Intelligence.
The History of AI initiative sees this paper as important because it shows an alternate vision for AI and its development. Although it diverges from other methods of AI, it was still pioneering AI in a different way. Thus, HAI considers the paper as a relevant marker in the History of AI.
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World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the largest forum of political leaders working to strengthen democratic values, good governance and well-being of citizens around the world, holds its Annual Policy Dialogue under the title “Multilateralism that Delivers” and within the framework of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
This event, which brings together 35 former Heads of State of democratic governments and more than 200 participants from government, civil society, academia and the private sector, is discussing strengthening multilateralism and supporting cooperation in the face of new global challenges.
World leaders face a set of challenges whose magnitude and complexity has not been seen since World War II. Back then, the world’s economic challenges were addressed at the Bretton Woods meetings which created our current international financial institutions. Today, with accelerating and increasing geopolitical, societal and environmental tensions, these institutions are having a difficult time keeping up with the rapid pace of change. By reframing the ongoing digitalization of how international transactions are governed, a new means for addressing today’s challenges is emerging which provides an opportunity to be more agile, fair, innovative and sustainable.
To Alex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT, Boston Global Forum expert, Co-founder of AIWS.net and Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995) and WLA-CdM Member, “Modernizing and digitizing the governance of national, international, and commercial interactions to become more efficient, transparent, and inclusive needs to be elevated as a global priority. Dozens of efforts are already underway. However, current efforts are mostly piecemeal and incremental. This is therefore a natural topic for inclusion within a new Bretton Woods type of agreement.”
For more information on “Digitalisation; Enabling Multilateralism and Impact” please view the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77rJE3ldHA
The full op-ed can also be read and downloaded via here.
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MIT Connection Science, in collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum, is working to bring about a new paradigm in global trade, finance, and governance systems. With tools to securely collect, share, and analyze data, governments and communities can build better systems for health, monetary exchange, economic development, trade, and more. Global leaders are beginning to call for a rethinking of old governance systems, which are no longer meeting the challenges of the times.
In 1944, world leaders from 44 nations convened at the Mount Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, NH in an attempt to heal and revitalize the world economy following WWII. The solutions they developed were not perfect, but they laid the foundations for the global financial systems and multilateral organizations that still exist and shape the world today, including the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (precursor to the World Bank). The Bretton Woods accord helped bring stability to a turbulent world ravaged by conflict. However, the relative stability of global economic policy is today giving way to renewed turmoil.
“Unfortunately,” says MIT Connection Science Director, Prof. Sandy Pentland, Member of the AIWS City’s Board of Leaders, “the systems and institutions established at Bretton Woods are proving too slow and too siloed to address the world’s current problems. Not since WWII have public debt and the national economies of so many nations been in such disarray.”
Governance of digital platforms has become unexpectedly urgent.
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On November 20, 2020, the official logo of the AIWS City was launched.
From this week, AIWS Weekly will start to introduce AIWS City.
AIWS is an elite virtual city, connected to real world gems. By entering the AIWS City, people can:
- Connect, discuss, and learn from preeminent figures of AIWS City.
- Enjoy world gems such Boston, Athens, Rome, Paris, London, Washington DC, Tokyo, etc.
- Learn from distinguished professors and thinkers from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge
- Learn with innovators and leaders of the AIWS City
- Discover new opportunities.
- Join Intellectual Society
Preeminent figures of the AIWS City who respect and apply Social Contract for the AI Age, create Intellectual Society, and citizens of the AIWS City can join Intellectual Society and practice its elite norms, standards.
Elite ecosystem includes AIWS Universities, Palace, Concert Hall, and more than 30 World Gem Cities.
Next week, we will introduce the AIWS University.
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