Causally Colored Reflections on Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” (2001) https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726

Enticed by a recent seminar on this subject, I have re-read Breiman’s influential paper and would like to share with readers a re-assessment of its contributions to the art of statistical modeling. When the paper first appeared, in 2001, I had the impression...

The Social Contract for the AI Age at the Riga Conference 2019

Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, was a speaker at the Riga Conference 2019 at the Plenary Session “Political Power in the Digital Age”. Mr. Tuan introduced the AIWS Social Contract 2020. This was after the AIWS Conference at Harvard...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published in the Mind quarterly academic journal in October 1950. It was the first instance that the “Turing test” was introduced to the...

The first conference of the Social Contract for the AI Age

The Social Contract for the AI Age was officially launched and discussed at World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” during September 16-18, 2020, with the attendance of...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl published “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – computer scientist Judea Pearl published Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems in 1988. The book is, according to the publisher, about “the theoretical foundations and computational methods...

Senator Kitching thanks the United Nations 2045 Roundtable

From 8:00 – 9:30 pm, EDT, September 23, 2020, at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable with the theme “The United Nations and implementing standard and norms for peace and security in 2045.” The United Nations 2045 is an initiative of the United...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – computer scientist James Robert Slagle developed SAINT

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – computer scientist James Robert Slagle developed SAINT in 1961. SAINT stands for Symbolic Automatic INTegrator. It was a heuristic program that could solve symbolic integration problems in freshman calculus....

Senator Kimberley Kitching speaks at AIWS Roundtable

United Nations 2045 RoundtableUnited Nations 2045 Initiative – UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100The United Nations and implementing standards and norms for peace and security in 2045.Time: 8:00 PM EDT, September 23, 2020This is a United...

Introducing AIWS City and AIWS.net at the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab

On September 17, at Session I of this event, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Author of Social Contract for the AI Age, introduced the model of AI World Society City (AIWS City). AIWS City as a method of practicing the Social Contract...