Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, also a professor of Computer Science, becomes a Member of the History of AI Board. He was a speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable together with the Father of the Internet Vint Cerf on August 21, 2020.
Over 30 years of top academic and political experience including senior level functions in the
Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister,
two times as Deputy Prime Minister and two times as Minister of Foreign Affairs, six times
elected Member of the Parliament and leader of the largest multi-ethnic political party in the
country in various periods between 1992 and 2015.
Strong exposure to national and international development, including institutions building,
economies in transition and competitiveness, strategic use of information technologies,
inclusive and sustainable development, promoting diversity, shared societies, participation
and dialogue, consensus building, leadership during country’s recent turbulent history in
ending the conflict, peace-building and recovery.
Member of Club de Madrid-The World Leadership Alliance and World Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Founder of Shared Societies and Values Sarajevo Foundation.
Professor at School of Business and Economics and School of Electrical Engineering,
Sarajevo University since 1989. with PhD in Computer Science. Fulbright Scholar in the USA
as postdoctoral researcher and professor. Visiting and distinguished professor of different
universities in Europe, Asia and America among which are Distinguished Professor at
Swartzman College, Tsinghua University as well as BRI School and EMI of Beijing Normal
University.
Member of the Board of Trustees of Nizami International Center, member of Board of
Trustees Bibliotheca Alexandrina and member of numerous International Missions and
Commissions in different parts of the World.
On August 21, 2020, Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, was a keynote speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable and the History of AI. Vint Cerf talked about historical moments at the birth of Internet. However, history is not just yesterday, it is also today and tomorrow. Cerf conceived a new concept of “The People Centered Economy: The new AI and Internet Ecosystem for Work and Life”. Following Vint Cerf, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founder of AIWS.net, introduced the concept and model of AI World Society City (AIWS City) AI World Society City (AIWS City), a virtual city that applies the standards of “the Social Contract 2020”, “People Centered Economy”, “Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civic Society”, and “AI-Government”, with AIWS Value to foster for Vint Cerf’s idea that “all people can create value for each other”.
Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of the United Nations Chronicle Magazine moderated the event. Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the History of AI Board, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, Dr. Le Minh Chien, President of Dalat University, member of the History of AI Board, and professors from Harvard, MIT, University of Tokyo, Saint Petersburg (Russia) joined as participants.
On August 21, 2020, Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, was a keynote speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable and the History of AI. Vint Cerf talked about historical moments at the birth of Internet. However, history is not just yesterday, it is also today and tomorrow. Cerf conceived a new concept of “The People Centered Economy: The new AI and Internet Ecosystem for Work and Life”. Following Vint Cerf, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founder of AIWS.net, introduced the concept and model of AI World Society City (AIWS City) AI World Society City (AIWS City), a virtual city that applies the standards of “the Social Contract 2020”, “People Centered Economy”, “Intellectual Society-Thoughtful Civic Society”, and “AI-Government”, with AIWS Value to foster for Vint Cerf’s idea that “all people can create value for each other”.
Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact and Editor-in-Chief of the United Nations Chronicle Magazine moderated the event. Governor Michael Dukakis, Chairman of the History of AI Board, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, Dr. Le Minh Chien, President of Dalat University, member of the History of AI Board, and professors from Harvard, MIT, University of Tokyo, Saint Petersburg (Russia) joined as participants.
Professor Caroline A. Jones, MIT, has joined the History of AI Board at AIWS.net.She is a Professor in History, Theory, and Criticism of the Architecture Department at MIT.
She wrote a chapter of the book “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking At AI” (2019), whose co-authors are Judea Pearl, Alex Pentland, Max Tegmark, Stuart Russell, and others. She said “Humans must truly understand intelligence to re-create it”, and “As we enshrine computation as the core of smartness, we would be well advised to think of the complexity of our ‘wet’ cognition, which entails a much more distributed notion of intelligence that goes well beyond the sacred cranium and may not even be bounded by our own skin.”
Dr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact, chaired and moderated a fascinating UN 2045 Roundtable on July 24, 2020.
Alex Pentland, Professor of MIT Connection Science, Co-founder of AIWS.net, presented a new model, term: The Trustworthy Economy. He said:”Today’s financial systems are not trusted by citizens because they are inherently unstable and winner-take-all, so for most people the system offers only failure. Today, new digital technologies allow the fine-grain feedback needed to build systems that are dramatically more stable, which reward everyone’s contribution to society, and provide everyone with a realistic opportunity to build a good life.”
Discussants:
Bill Ottman, Co-Founder and CEO of Minds.com
Marc Rotenberg, Director of CAIDP, Michael Dukakis Institute
Anders Corr, Principal of Corr Analytics
Marcel Zutter, Chairman of Parsumo Invest
Allan Cytryn, Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
Anders Hjorth Agerskov, Lead Public Sector Specialist, World Bank
Barry Nolan, Senior Adviser to the US Congress
Jeff Saviano, Global Tax Innovation Leader of EY, MIT Connection Science Fellow
Quy Nguyen, a Member of Young Leaders, AIWS.net
This is an event of the History of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.
Slides from Professor Alex Pentland’s presentation can be found here.
