International Workshop
Appropriate distance between humans and machines: Robot, AI, and Enhancement
| [Date] | Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10:00-12:30 (Open 9:30) |
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| [Venue] | Yayoi Auditorium Annex Seihoku Gallery, The University of Tokyo MAP |
| [Organized by] | Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo |
| [Co-organized by] |
AIR Beneficial AI Japan Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center (UTokyo) STIG (Science, technology, and Innovation Governance) Education and Research Unit |
| [Language] | English |
The relationship between people, robots, and artificial intelligence is getting increasingly complicated.
At the same time, this poses a strong question: what is intelligence with humans?
- Can people and machines have emotional bonds?
- Do machines extend human functions?
- And how researchers’ responsibilities and innovation should be different among countries?
This event, France, Russia, and Japanese researchers will introduce the relationship between people and machines and various examples of research trends.
Program
| 10:00-10:05 |
Opening Remarks Arisa Ema (Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo) |
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| 10:05-10:40 |
Lecture 1 Laurence Devillers (Paris-Sorbonne University, France) “Affective and Social Dimensions in Spoken Interaction: Technological and Ethical Issues” |
| 10:40-11:15 |
Lecture 2 Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) “Human-Agent Interaction as Substitution of Emotional Labor” |
| 11:15-11:50 |
Lecture 3 Elena Seredkina (Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia) “Stakeholder Opinion Survey in Japan and Russia on AI/robots: Global and national perspectives” |
| 11:50-12:25 |
Lecture 4 Kojiro Honda (Department of General Education - Human Sciences, Kanazawa Medical University) “What is Body-conservatism” |
| 12:25-12:30 |
Closing Remarks Hideaki Shiroyama (Graduate Schools for Law and Politics/ GraSPP, The University of Tokyo) |
Related Links
- AIR
- Beneficial AI Japan
- Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center (UTokyo)
- STIG (Science, technology, and Innovation Governance) Education and Research Unit
Bios
Laurence Devillers (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)
L. Devillers is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Paris-Sorbonne University and she leads a team of research on ‘Affective and Social Dimensions of Spoken Interactions’ at the CNRS. Her background is on machine learning, speech recognition, spoken dialog system and evaluation. Since 2001, she is working on affective computing and participates in BPI ROMEO then ROMEO2 project, which has the main goal of building a social humanoid robot. She leads the European CHIST-ERA project JOKER: JOKe and Empathy of a Robot. She has (co-) authored more than 150 publications (h-index=36). She is a member of AAAC (board), IEEE, ACL, ISCA and AFCP. She is involved in the Eurobotics Topic Groups: “Natural Interaction with Social Robots” and “Socially intelligent robots”. She is member of the working group on the ethics of the research in robotics (CERNA) and heads the Machine Learning/AI and Ethics WG. She is also involved in the Affective Computing Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems (2016) and leads the working group P7008 on nudging.
Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Dr. Hirotaka Osawa is an assistant professor in University of Tsukuba. His research field is in human-agent interaction, particularly anthropomorphization of an object. His own research focuses on how human-like appearance and attitude improves interaction between a user and machines. He wants to create universal users interface experiences using our innate response to the world. His research interest is an improvement of today’s complex household appliances. Dr. Osawa received his PhD in Engineering, MS and BS in Computer Science from Keio University.
Elena Seredkina (Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia)
Dr. Elena Seredkina gained her PhD degree at Saint Petersburg State University in the field of History of Philosophy (2005). She has been working on the philosophy of science and technology at Philosophy and Law Department of Perm National Research Polytechnic University since 2003. Head of the Youth Department of the Union of Artificial Intelligence at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (2006-2007). Being involved in the research of Technology assessment as a Head of the research laboratory RRI_Lab (since 2014) at the global and national level she has been one of the main leaders on this topic in Russia and constantly works in an interdisciplinary team on the TA/RRI projects. Her research focuses on philosophical and methodological problems of technology, national models of technology assessment and “participatory turn” as a RRI approac
Kojiro Honda (Department of General Education - Human Sciences, Kanazawa Medical University)
He started his academic career as an assistant professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where he worked toward a launch of engineering ethics course as a member of Applied Ethics Center for Engineering and Science in 2004-2006. Then he moved to Doshisha University, where he worked toward a launch of academic writing course in 2007-2010. Then he studied history of Japanese science policy as a research coordinator of ITEC (Institute of Technology, Enterprise, and Competitiveness in Doshisha Business School) in 2011. From 2012 he has taught medical ethics at Kanazawa Medical University and from 2016 he has been an associate professor there. His main subject of research is philosophy of technology, especially philosophy and ethics of “Transhumanism”. He was one of foundation members of Society for Applied Philosophy of Robotics in 2011.
Contact & Inquiries
Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
Email: pari_tg@pari.u-tokyo.ac.jp