CORE Academy is pleased to publish the full text of remarks delivered by Raymond J. Wu, Executive Vice Secretary-General of CORE Academy and Managing Editor of The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence, at the IVI Summit 2026 Gala Dinner in Maynooth, Ireland.
The IVI Summit 2026, held from 10 to 12 June 2026 at Maynooth University, marked the twentieth anniversary of the Innovation Value Institute. Under the theme “20 Years of Impactful Research – What’s Next?”, the Summit brought together scholars, researchers, practitioners, policy leaders, industry representatives, and institutional partners to discuss digital transformation, data, artificial intelligence, innovation, and the future of research impact. CORE Academy participated in the Summit as a collaborating institution and contributed to discussions on international research collaboration, responsible openness, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, knowledge governance, and the future responsibilities of academic institutions in an age of rapid technological change.
Professor Piero Formica delivers a keynote address at the IVI Summit 2026 Gala Dinner
The Summit Gala Dinner also provided an opportunity to present CORE Academy’s recent work in digital scholarly publishing. CORE Academy Fellow Professor Piero Formica and Raymond J. Wu were invited as keynote speakers for the evening programme. Professor Formica introduced his new book, The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence: An Odyssey of Human and Artificial Intelligence, published by CORE Academy as part of CORE Academy Digital Editions. Following Professor Formica’s address, Dr. Wu delivered remarks on the intellectual and institutional significance of the volume.
Raymond J. Wu delivers a keynote address at the IVI Summit 2026 Gala Dinner
In his remarks, Dr. Wu reflected on artificial intelligence not only as a technological development, but as a transformation in the conditions under which knowledge is produced, circulated, verified, preserved, and trusted. He also introduced CORE Academy’s publication of The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence as a living and open digital book, designed to evolve with the field while maintaining editorial judgment, authorship, intellectual standards, and public trust.
The full text of the remarks is published below.
The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Knowledge
Remarks by Raymond J. Wu
Executive Vice Secretary-General, CORE Academy
Managing Editor, The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence
IVI Summit 2026 Gala Dinner
Maynooth, Ireland | June 2026
Dear Professor Helfert, Professor Formica, distinguished guests, colleagues, and friends,
Good evening.
It is a great pleasure and a genuine honor to join you this evening in Maynooth, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of IVI. On behalf of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities, also known as CORE Academy, I would like to extend our warm congratulations to IVI on two decades of research, innovation, institution-building, and international engagement.
The theme of this Summit, “20 Years of Impactful Research – What’s Next?”, is not only a question for IVI. It is also a question for all institutions of knowledge today. In an age shaped by artificial intelligence, digital transformation, institutional uncertainty, and new forms of human-machine interaction, universities, academies, research institutes, and learned societies are all being asked what kind of future they wish to help build.
Before I speak about Professor Formica’s book, I would also like to convey a brief message of congratulations from Professor Li Lei, Member of the Executive Board of CORE Academy. Professor Li warmly congratulates IVI on its twentieth anniversary and extends CORE Academy’s best wishes for the Summit. He also expresses the Academy leadership’s hope that CORE Academy, IVI, and Maynooth University may continue to deepen dialogue and explore future cooperation in areas of shared interest, including artificial intelligence, innovation, knowledge governance, and interdisciplinary research.
I am very pleased to bring this message to you tonight.
This evening, I have the privilege of saying a few words about Professor Piero Formica’s new book, The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence, published by CORE Academy. For those familiar with Professor Formica’s work, this is not simply another book about artificial intelligence. It belongs to a wider intellectual journey: a journey concerned with innovation, imagination, uncertainty, entrepreneurship, learning, and the human meaning of knowledge.
The title itself is telling. A horizon is never fixed. It moves as we move. It invites us forward, but it also reminds us that the future cannot be fully possessed in advance. Artificial intelligence is such a horizon. It is not only a tool; it is a changing landscape. It is already reshaping how we learn, work, create, remember, and trust.
Professor Formica’s book asks us to think about AI not only as a technology, but as a transformation in the conditions of knowledge. AI is entering laboratories, classrooms, businesses, public institutions, and daily life. It is changing how knowledge is produced, circulated, verified, and renewed. The question before us is therefore not simply: what can AI do? It is also: what should human institutions become in the age of AI?
This is where the mission of CORE Academy connects closely with the spirit of this Summit. CORE Academy is an international academy of sciences and humanities. We believe that the future of knowledge cannot be built by science alone, by technology alone, or by the humanities alone. It must be built through serious dialogue across disciplines, institutions, cultures, and generations.
For this reason, publishing The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence has also become an editorial experiment for CORE Academy. We are presenting it as a living and open book.
By living, we mean that the book is not treated as a closed monument. AI changes quickly; a serious book on AI should be able to grow, to respond, to be revised, and to remain intellectually alive.
By open, we mean that readers are not only passive audiences. They may become participants in the continuing life of the book. They may propose reflections, chapters, and new directions. If accepted by the author and publisher, these contributions may become part of future versions of the book.
Yet openness does not mean looseness. A living book still needs editorial judgment, intellectual standards, authorship, and trust. This, I think, is one of the deeper lessons of the AI age. The more powerful our technologies become, the more important our institutions become. We need institutions that can preserve memory, sustain standards, welcome plurality, and defend public trust in knowledge.
In my own chapter in The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence, I consider generative AI as an emerging infrastructure of knowledge. It is becoming part of the background system through which ideas are produced, translated, summarized, distributed, and evaluated. This does not make human judgment less important. On the contrary, it makes human judgment more necessary.
AI can assist creation, but it cannot carry responsibility for us.
AI can accelerate communication, but it cannot create trust by itself.
AI can generate language, but it cannot inherit memory in the human sense.
AI can process information, but it cannot decide what kind of civilization knowledge should serve.
That remains our task.
This is why it is meaningful to present this book here, at IVI’s twentieth anniversary Summit. IVI has spent two decades thinking about innovation, value, digital transformation, and the relationship between research and real-world impact. CORE Academy, from its own side, is concerned with the long future of knowledge, international academic cooperation, and the responsibilities of learned institutions. These paths are different, but they meet naturally in the questions raised by artificial intelligence.
We are therefore very pleased that CORE Academy can participate in IVI Summit 2026 as a collaborator. We see many natural areas for future dialogue with IVI and Maynooth University: AI and innovation, knowledge governance, responsible technology, value creation, public trust, and the role of international cooperation in shaping a more humane digital future.
Meaningful cooperation does not always begin with a grand structure. Sometimes it begins with a book, a conversation, a shared question, or a small platform for future exchange. But if the question is serious, and if the dialogue is sustained, such beginnings can grow.
I hope The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence will become one such beginning. Not only a book presented at a Summit, but a living space for further conversation. Not only a publication by CORE Academy, but an invitation to scholars, innovators, students, institutions, and readers to think together about the future of intelligence, knowledge, and human value.
On behalf of CORE Academy, I again congratulate IVI on its twentieth anniversary. We thank Professor Helfert and the IVI team for their openness and support. We thank Professor Formica for his intellectual leadership and trust. And we look forward to continuing this conversation with all of you, not only during this Summit, but in the years ahead.
May the next twenty years of IVI bring deeper research, wider international cooperation, and new forms of innovation that serve both knowledge and humanity.
Thank you very much.
Raymond J. Wu
Related Links
CORE Academy Participates in IVI Summit 2026, Advancing Dialogue on AI and the Future of Research Collaboration: https://coreacad.org/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=266
The Horizon of Artificial Intelligence: A Living Digital Book on AI, Human Intelligence, and the Future of Knowledge: https://doi.org/10.61362/CORE0517
