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Boston Think Tank Brings Ethical AI Principles into Governance, Finance, Banking and Blockchain

August 15, 2025 | 4 minutes reading time | By David Weldon

Led by co-founders including ex-Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston Global Forum and their AI World Society promote international and multidisciplinary dialogue to ensure “enlightenment” in applications of advanced technologies.

The technology of artificial intelligence, and debates over how much it should be regulated or reined in, have been hurtling forward on parallel tracks. The Boston Global Forum, founded in 2012 as a “hub for leaders, scholars, innovators and citizens committed to addressing the world’s most pressing challenges,” has taken its AI World Society initiative into high gear as a bridge between the two.

Concepts such as a Social Contract for the AI Age, Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, and AIWS Digital Assets have come out of the project, which BGF chairman and co-founder Michael Dukakis attributed in a book foreword to the leadership of forum co-chair and CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan.

“Together, we continue to chart new courses for international collaboration in the AI age,” wrote Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts, noting that AIWS originated at a meeting in his home in 2017. “The invaluable friendship between Nguyen Anh Tuan and [his co-author and BGF co-founder] Thomas Patterson reflects the resilience of the human spirit to learn from the past, heal old wounds and forge innovative solutions for the future.”

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