AI World Society (AIWS) – Key Milestones in 2025

Throughout 2025, AIWS moved decisively from vision to action—demonstrating that the defining challenge of the AI Age is not what AI can do, but how humanity chooses to guide it toward peace, dignity, and enlightened governance. January 4, 2025 — Hanoi,...

President Trump Signs Executive Order to Block State AI Regulations

According to reporting by Associated Press, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order preventing U.S. states from enforcing or adopting their own artificial intelligence regulations, asserting federal primacy over AI governance. This decision...

The Birth of the Social Contract for the AI Age (2019–2020)

A milestone in the history of global AI governance emerged from the collaboration between the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid (CdM) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF), culminating in the development of the Social Contract for the AI Age—a...

Learning to Think: A Ten-Year Perspective

Ten years ago, Jürgen Schmidhuber introduced the concept of the reinforcement learning (RL) prompt engineer, an adaptive mechanism through which an RL controller learns to actively query a neural world model to support abstract reasoning and decision-making....

Shared Wisdom for the AI Age: Building the AI World Society Model

Professor Alex Pentland’s new book Shared Wisdom offers a timely and profound foundation for the development of the AI World Society (AIWS) model. His central message is clear: to build a flourishing society, we must design our technologies based on...

BGF–AIWS Family Member Glen Weyl Honored with the 2025 IRF Peace Builder Award

November 12, 2025 The Boston Global Forum – AIWS Family proudly congratulates E. Glen Weyl, distinguished thinker, Microsoft leader, and active member of the BGF–AIWS Family, on being honored with the 2025 IRF Peace Builder Award. The award was presented...

“The AI World Society: 30 Years of U.S.–Vietnam Partnership, from Nha Trang to Boston (1995–2025)” Launched at Harvard

Cambridge, MA – November 3, 2025 At a historic gathering at the Harvard Faculty Club, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) officially launched the book “The AI World Society: 30 Years of U.S.–Vietnam Partnership, from Nha Trang to Boston (1995–2025)”,...

World Leaders for Peace and Security Award Recipients and the Next Decade

Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 3, 2025 To Our Distinguished World Leaders for Peace and Security Award Recipients, It is with profound respect and gratitude that we write to you as we celebrate ten years of the World Leader for Peace and Security...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve — A Milestone in Evolutionary AI

DeepMind, the world-leading artificial intelligence research company under Google, has announced the launch of AlphaEvolve, a groundbreaking AI system designed to autonomously generate and refine algorithms — marking a new frontier in machine learning...