President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Vint Cerf, Nazli Choucri, and Tuan Nguyen discuss the Social Contract for the AI Age at the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab

On September 17 at Session I: The AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network: A Platform for Transatlantic Cooperation, the Lead Speaker and Facilitator was Nazli Choucri, Boston Global Forum Board Member and Professor of Political Science...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself...

TRANSATLANTIC APPROACHES ON DIGITAL GOVERNANCE A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

US Tapping China – Trends of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism in the US and China

“US Tapping China: Trends of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism in the US and China” is a paper by Paula Soumaya Domit, Rebecca Leeper, and Larissa Zutter, published using the Common Good Digital Framework in September 2020. The...

The Social Contract for the AI Age, completed and officially launched on 09/09/2020

This is the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will pay particular...

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

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA founded the Strategic Computing Initiative to fund research of advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence in 1983. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research...

Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Press Note 16-18 September 2020   Democratic former Heads of State and Government, Members of Club de Madrid, current Government representatives, experts and renowned scholars will analyse global challenges and offer actionable policy solutions at a...

Social Contract for the AI Age

09/09/2020 Original Signatories Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston Global Forum and President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvia and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Additional Signatories Vint Cerf, Father of Internet, Google, Nazli Choucri, MIT, Prime...

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project proposal

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed. The proposal was submitted on September 2, 1955, but written on August 31, 1955. It was the collaboration of John McCarthy,...