This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through...

Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development Goals

As the world prepares to observe Human Rights Day on December 10, we look at a paper prepared earlier this year by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the role artificial intelligence can play in their furtherance —...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA ends the Strategic Computing Initiative in 1993

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Strategic Computing Initiative was ended by DARPA in 1993. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research and development agency founded by the US Department of Defense...

Remarks by Cameron Kerry, former US Acting Secretary of Commerce, at the BGF 10th Anniversary Conference

Let speak about the broader contact of these multilateral gatherings and efforts like the Boston Global Forum and the Forum for Cooperation on AI that I co-lead at the Brookings Institution. We are in a changing world. The international order that emerged...

Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment”

Harvard University, Loeb House, November 22, 2022 I. Fundamentals and Accompanying the United Nations: Creating an Age of Global Enlightenment is based on the AIWS model whose core and pillars were introduced in the book “Remaking the World – Toward...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Logic Theorist was developed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated...

AIWS supports the Global Digital Compact of UN Secretary General António Guterres

The UN Secretary General posted on his Twitter on Nov. 16: It is clear that without guidance and guardrails, digital technology has huge potential for harm. At G20 Summit, I urged leaders to support my proposal for a Global Digital Compact – firmly...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET. ARPANET stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and was a project that was funded by ARPA and the DoD. While urban myths claim that ARPANET was...

Cross-Border Digital Payment Systems: The Case of Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Beyond

“A revolution in digital technology and telecommunication has made an outsized impact on financial services and payments in the last three decades. We access our bank accounts from our phones, make instantaneous transfers, and buy goods and services...