On October 13, 2022, leaders of the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute will discuss a framework of multilateralism between the US – Japan – India – EU, encompassing the economy, defense and special tech. This Framework will be present at the Riga Confeerence 2022 on Oct 22, 2022.
Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum, will lead this special high-level meeting.
BGF will contribute a new framework to maintain and protect peace and security. BGF leaders also will discuss solutions to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes at least one thing clear: It’s time for us to update how we think about nuclear weapons. For the first time in the nuclear era, one country used loudly issued nuclear threats — repeated just last week — to deter other countries from intervening in a large-scale conventional war of aggression.
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President Joe Biden on October 4 unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age, making automated systems work for the American people.
Boston Global Forum is pioneering by presenting a proposal and call for International Law and Accord in AI and Digital Rights at the Policy Lab: “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN AI & DIGITAL SOCIETIES – TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL ACCORD,” co-organized by BGF and Club de Madrid on September 7-9, 2021. BGF also published “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” which includes these important chapters:
“Framework for an AI International Accord” by MIT Professor Nazli Choucri
“An AI ‘Bill of Rights’ in the Digital Age” by Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis
“Fundamentals of International Law: AI and Digital” by Paul Nemitz
and the special report of BGF and Club de Madrid (CdM) in 2021 with highlights below:
CdM in partnership with BGF organized a Policy Lab on Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies: Towards an International Accord in September 2021. Multistakeholder discussions aimed to build consensus around a rights-based agenda for the global governance of AI and digital societies, focusing on the following topics:
- Opportunities and threats for fundamental rights in AI & digital societies.
- Transatlantic approaches to protect fundamental rights in AI & digital spaces.
- The elements & processes for an international legal framework to protect fundamental rights in AI & digital spaces
- The Concept, Principle and Ecosystem for Digital and AI Society – “Remaking the World, Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”.
- The Global Alliance for Digital Governance
- A framework for a global law and accord on AI and digital tools The Policy Lab followed the work initiated by both organizations on the implications of digital technologies and AI for democracy, global cooperation and multilateralism, with a particular focus on the Transatlantic space, and based on the progress of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 (Social Contract for the age of AI) and AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net).
Here is the link of the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.”
Here is the link to the report.
Firstly, BGF will connect governments of the EU, US, Japan and India to discuss about International AI Bill of Rights, then expand to the UK, Australia, South Korea and Brazil.
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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published in October 2008. The paper proposed new approaches to deep learning. In place of backpropagation, another concept Hinton introduced prior, Hinton proposes multilayer neural networks. This is so because backpropagation faced limitations such as requiring labeled training data. The paper can be read here.
Deep learning is a part of the broader machine learning field in Artificial Intelligence. The process is a method that is based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. It is “deep” in that it uses multiple layers in the networks. In the modern day, it has been utilised in various fields with good results.
Geoffrey Hinton is an English-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist. He is most notable for his work on neural networks. He is also known for his work into Deep Learning. Hinton, along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun (who was a postdoctorate student of Hinton), are considered the “Fathers of Deep Learning.” They were awarded the 2018 ACM Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, for their work on deep learning.
This paper is important in the History of AI because it introduces new perspective on deep learning. Instead of another ground-breaking concept like backpropagation, Hinton shows another method in the field. Geoffrey Hinton is also an important role in Deep Learning, which is a field of Machine Learning, part of Artificial Intelligence.
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The Biden administration on Friday Oct 7, announced sweeping new limits on the sale of semiconductor technology to China, a step aimed at crippling Beijing’s access to critical technologies that are needed for everything from supercomputing to guiding weapons.
The package of restrictions, which was released by the Commerce Department, is designed in large part to slow the progress of Chinese military programs, which use supercomputing to model nuclear blasts, guide hypersonic weapons and establish advanced networks for surveilling dissidents and minorities, among other activities.
Alan Estevez, the under secretary of commerce for industry and security, said his bureau was working to prevent China’s military, intelligence and security services from acquiring sensitive technologies with military applications.
Further readings can be found at the New York Times and Protocol.
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Following the High Level Discussion “Technology for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age” with keynote speaker Under-Secretary-General, Tech Envoy of United Nations Amandeep Gill on UN International Day of Peace September 21, Boston Global Forum is creating Manifesto “Tech for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age.” The Global Enlightenment Leaders that will join in building this special Manifesto are Governor Michael Dukakis, Harvard Professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig, MIT Professor Nazli Choucri, Alex Sandy Pentland, CEO of Boston Global Forum Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative Ramu Damodaran, Former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija and Father of Internet Vint Cerf. The Manifesto will contribute concepts and models to “Tech for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age.” The Manifesto is a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative.
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PROFESSOR KOICHI HAMADA JOINS THE SHINZO ABE INITIATIVE BOARD
Professor Koichi Hamada is a world-leading expert on international economics and the Japanese economy. He has had a distinguished career as an internationally renowned economics professor, an economic adviser to the Japanese government and as an economic consultant to the IMF and WTO. He is Special Economic Adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
He is credited as one of the key architects of Abenomics, economic policies based upon "three arrows" of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform.
Professor Koichi Hamada was a speaker at BGF conferences and officially joins the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security Board. |
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