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BOSTON – The AI World Society announced the History of AI 2022 Awards. The HAI Awards recognize people and achievements in the AI world that are pioneering, meaningful, and influential.
The History of AI 2022 Awards for Achievement go to:
OpenAI - Dall*E 2 and ChatGPT
OpenAI is selected for the HAI 2022 Award due to the organization’s work in DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT.
OpenAI is an AI research lab, with a mission statement of “promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole.” The project was founded in 2015 by individuals and groups such as Sam Altman, Elon Musk, AWS, and Y Combinator, who invested over $1 billion into the venture.
DALL-E 2 is a deep learning model that generates images and drawings through user prompts. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that was launched in late November 2022. Users can ask questions or prompts, and ChatGPT could respond in kind, similar to what a human would answer.
There are concerns with DALL-E 2, and other AI art generators broadly, on copyright infringements. As these models study works done by artists, many see it as not being fairly compensated for their efforts. On the other program, ChatGPT’s flaws include some issues with answers to questions, with some accuracy. Some also have fears about it in education, that students may be able to spoof actual writing with whatever ChatGPT spit out.
Policies that could potentially combat these issues in OpenAI’s programs include oversight or guidance to be beneficial to mankind, moving them away from sensitive or social-manipulating arenas. To this end, it should be ensured that DALL-E and ChatGPT would follow BGF guidelines and the fundamental rights and ethics.
Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment” and
Distinguished Global Enlightenment Speech of Amandeep Gill - Global Digital Compact
The first Distinguished Global Enlightenment Speech was delivered by Amandeep Gill, UN Under-Secretary General, Envoy on Technology, at the ceremony at Harvard University Loeb House on November 22, 2022 to honor him with the World Leader in AIWS Award 2022.
Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment” was announced and discussed at the ceremony, with its cores being:
Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) aims to bring scientists, academics, government officials and industry leaders together to keep AI a benign force serving humanity’s best interests and contributing to the realization of the hopes of Pope Francis and that of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who has proposed a “Global Digital Compact, based on shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future. We look forward also to an Age of Global Enlightenment where every person can be an innovator and opportunities are created for all individuals, businesses, and organizations to support a Global Enlightenment Education Program (GEEP) and a Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure (GEEI) and build a home of creativity for themselves.
Global Enlightenment Economy with its focus not only on material and financial values, but contributing to the Age of Global Enlightenment with peace, security, prosperity for every country and every people while preventing extreme nationalism in any country. This would inform the Global Enlightenment Polity where all individuals can participate in policy deliberations, introduce new ideas and contribute in all ways to collective global wellbeing. GEEI would also challenge misinformation and disinformation, fulfilling a United Nations vision of digital trust and security. The Manifesto will seek, in particular, to contribute to the preparations for and deliberations at the United Nations “Summit of the Future” called by Secretary-General Guterres for September 2024.
The History of AI 2020 Awards to Individuals go to:
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskeever
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. Sutskever is also one of the many authors of the AlphaGo paper.
The History of AI 2022 Awards will be featured at the AI World Society City. The AI World Society (AIWS) City, established in collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid, and the United Nations Academic Impact, is a practical model for the Age of Global Enlightenment.
Contacts:
Tuan Nguyen, CEO of the Boston Global Forum:
Email: Tuan_Nguyen@BostonGlobalForum.org
Phone: 617 286 6589
Jim McManus:
Email: Jim@sloweymcmanus.com
Phone: 617-413-9232
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Global Alliance for Digital Governance
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By Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Alex Pentland
Dec 30, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems are increasingly affecting our daily lives. Banking algorithms decide who is eligible for housing or loans, healthcare algorithms are making decisions on coverage and standards of care. Companies are using hiring algorithms to sort resumes. While all of these innovations make life more convenient, they pose risks to the public and are often rife with bias and discrimination.
In October, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.” As leaders of the Boston Global Forum, we applaud President Biden and the OSTP for advancing this important measure, which protects people from threats and defines guardrails on technology to reinforce civil rights, civil liberties and privacy, and equal opportunities ensuring access to critical resources and services.
The blueprint outlines common-sense protections with respect to AI:
- It shouldn’t discriminate;
- It shouldn’t violate data privacy;
- We should know when AI is being used;
- We should be able to opt out and talk to a human when we encounter a problem.
It’s not binding legislation, but rather a set of recommendations for government agencies and technology companies using AI. It’s also a great tool to educate the public as well as organizations responsible for protecting and advancing our civil rights and civil liberties.
On the world stage, bad actors in other nations are increasingly using AI to spread disinformation and propaganda through deep fakes and other manipulated media.
Last year, the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance — Club de Madrid brought prominent international leaders together to explore ideas and strategies and for a Global Law and Accord on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Rights.
The group established the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) to coordinate resources among governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make the resources more effective to synthesize and maximize their impact. It is not an organization, but rather, a network for sharing resources and cooperating among governments. At the core of this initiative is to establish a common understanding of policy and practice, anchored in general principles to help maximize the "good" and minimize the "bad" associated with AI:
- Fairness and justice for all: The first principle is already agreed upon in the international community as a powerful aspiration. All entities – private and public – should treat, and be treated, with fairness and justice.
- Responsibility and accountability for policy and decision making — private and public: The second principle recognizes the power of the new global ecology that will increasingly span all entities worldwide—private and public, developing and developed.
- Precautionary principle for innovations and applications: The third principle is to support innovation. It does not push for regulation but supports initiatives to explore the unknown with care and caution.
- Ethics-in-AI: Fourth is the principle of ethical integrity. At issue is incorporating the cultural commonalities into a global ethical system for all phases, innovations, and manifestations of artificial intelligence.
Without adequate guidelines and useful directives, the undisciplined use of AI poses risks to the wellbeing of individuals and creates fertile ground for economic, political, social, and criminal exploitation. As we gain consensus on principles and practices among members of the global society, we will generate and enhance social benefits and well-being for all, shared by all.
Michael Dukakis is the former governor of Massachusetts and chairman of the Boston Global Forum. Nguyen Anh Tuan is CEO of the Boston Global Forum. MIT Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland is a contributor to the book "Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment" and a board member of the UN global partnership for sustainable development data.
The original article was published at Boston Business Journal.
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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on artificial intelligence, in 1963. Perhaps the first anthology on the topic, Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some of the articles but they were not the only contributors. Computers and Thought includes 20 articles from notable AI pioneers such as Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky, Allan Newell, Herbert Simon and others.
Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer scientist focused on Artificial Intelligence. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University for both his B.S. and Ph.D., with Herbert Simon, another AI pioneer, as his doctoral advisor. He would go on to work at UC Berkeley and Stanford, the latter where he became Professor Emeritus of Computer Science since 2000. Feigenbaum received the ACM Turing Award in 1994 with Raj Reddy for pioneering in AI and demonstrating its commercial potential. The HAI Initiative had the fortune of meeting and discussing AI history earlier this year.
Julian Feldman is an American computer scientist with an eye on Artificial Intelligence. Feldman studied at the University of Chicago for his undergrad; received an M.A. in political science; before going to Carnegie Mellon’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration for his Ph.D. He held a tenured position at UC Berkeley, before leaving it to help build UC Irvine, where he would create its Information and Computer Sciences department, the first ICS school in the UC system. Feldman also wrote papers and articles on connectionism, a fairly contentious topic within AI and computer science.
The HAI Initiative considers the publication of this book an important event in the history of AI due to the culmination of various thoughts on AI from its pioneers. Feigenbaum and Feldman themselves are also notable figures in the development of artificial intelligence.
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Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mbugua Martin Kimani tweets about ChatGPT by Open AI as the " most exciting technological development! I just used it to combine 5 briefs into a good first draft. Then I asked it: What are the dangers to the application of the UN Charter by states and people from the use of Artificial Intelligence?"
This Scientific American article also found similar responses from ChatGPT on this topic.
AIWS.net includes news reports, analysis and reflections by distinguished thinkers and innovators supporting innovations and solutions for “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and the United Nations Centennial initiative, looking at how the world might be in 2045 when the global organization completes a hundred years.
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Global Enlightenment Leaders
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Boston, 1/1/2023
Dear Friends,
As we close in on the old year and look forward to the new, the gratitude of all of us at the Boston Global Forum for the support of your actions and ideas over 2022 and all good wishes for 2023, which is a year of special meaning for us as it will allow us to celebrate Governor Dukakis's ninetieth birthday.
But we do have ten months before that time to continue the many activities of our hearts and our minds which are the best tribute to his lifetime of imagination and service.
We will continue our work on an Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) project which aims to bring scientists, academics, government officials and industry leaders together to keep AI a benign force serving humanity’s best interests and contributing to the realization of the hopes of Pope Francis and that of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who has proposed a “Global Digital Compact, based on shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future. We look forward also to an Age of Global Enlightenment where every person can be an innovator and opportunities are created for all individuals, businesses, and organizations to support a Global Enlightenment Education Program (GEEP) and a Global Enlightenment Economy Infrastructure (GEEI) and build a home of creativity for themselves.
Linked to this would be a Global Alliance for Digital Governance and the Global Enlightenment Economy with its focus not only on material and financial values, but contributing to the Age of Global Enlightenment with peace, security, prosperity for every country and every people while preventing extreme nationalism in any country. This would inform the Global Enlightenment Polity where all individuals can participate in policy deliberations, introduce new ideas and contribute in all ways to collective global wellbeing. GEEI would also challenge misinformation and disinformation, fulfilling a United Nations vision of digital trust and security. Our work will seek, in particular, to contribute to the preparations for and deliberations at the United Nations "Summit of the Future" called by Secretary-General Guterres for September 2024.
I attach the full text of our "manifesto" which some of you have already seen and which outlines our plans and possibilities in greater detail. We look forward to your support and your ideas which have always enriched our work and, in that process, our contributions to the world to which we are blessed to belong.
Happy new year!
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-founder and CEO of Boston Global Forum
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SYMBOLISM AND THREE CRITICAL IMPERATIVES FOR THE AGE OF GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENT
BGF chose this image as a symbol of the Global Enlightenment Age.
MIT Professor Nazli Choucri, BGF Board Member, wrote:
Three Critical Imperatives for the Age of Global Enlightenment
• Sustainability in framing and implementation of vision – while taking on responsibilities for fundamental remediation
• Precautionary Principle: -- consider consequences of each actions, feedback logic, impacts on whole mission and vision.
• Power of Political Participation – people matter and matter a lot; individually and collectively – even the very best of ideas need support of the many.
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