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[開催案内] B’AI Global Forum 設立5周年記念シンポジウム 開催のお知らせ(2024年11月18日) [Event Information] B’AI Global Forum 5th Anniversary Symposium

AIと社会正義をテーマに活動してきたB’AIグローバル・フォーラムが、設立5周年を迎えます。この節目を記念し、AI倫理・政策・技術開発の最前線で活躍する専門家をお招きして、シンポジウムを開催いたします。

AIが持つ可能性だけでなく、私たちの権利や日常生活に与える影響、そして世界規模での社会経済的不正義にも目を向け、より想像力豊かなAI技術の設計・活用を通して、多様性、公平性、インクルージョンがどのように実現できるのか議論します。

■ 主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
■ 後援:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構
■ 日時:2024年11月18日(月曜日)13:00-17:30(日本時間)(12:30 開場)
■ 場所:東京大学本郷キャンパス福武ラーニングシアター、およびZoomウェビナー
■ 言語:英語(日本語への同時通訳有り)
■ 参加方法:対面参加・オンライン参加、どちらの場合も、事前の参加登録が必要です。
以下のリンクからお申し込みください。(申込〆切:11月10日(日))   
https://forms.gle/zRcq29odcj2UNTWi7
    
■ お問い合わせ:
B’AI Global Forum事務局
bai.gf.inquiry [at] gmail.com ([at]を@に変更してください)

Founded in 2020, B’AI Global Forum has dedicated itself to exploring the intersection of AI and social justice. To commemorate its 5th anniversary, we are hosting a symposium featuring experts at the forefront of AI ethics, policy, and technology development.

We will explore how to harness AI creatively to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion by highlighting not only the potential of AI but also its impact on our rights and daily lives, as well as socioeconomic injustices on a global scale.

■ Date: November 18, 2024 (Mon), 13:00-17:30 (JST) (Doors open at 12:30)
■ Venue: Fukutake Learning Theater (Hongo Campus) and Zoom webinar
■ Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation in Japanese available)
■ How to register: Whether attending in person or online, pre-registration is required.
Please sign up using the link below. (Pre-registration deadline: Sunday, November 10)
https://forms.gle/zRcq29odcj2UNTWi7

■ Organizer: B’AI Global Forum, The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
■ Supported by The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

■ Inquiry
B’AI Global Forum Office
bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com(Please change [at] to @)

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プログラム
■ 13:00-13:15: 開会の挨拶
津田 敦(東京大学)

■ 13:15-13:55:B’AIグローバル・フォーラムの5年間振り返り
板津木綿子(東京大学)

■ 14:00-14:45:基調講演1 “Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in the Epoch of AI: Lessons from Southern Feminism”
アニタ・グルムルティ(IT for Change)

■ 15:00-15:45:基調講演2 “Reframing the narrative of our AI future”
ステフ・ライト(Scottish AI Alliance)

■ 16:00-17:20:パネル討論
モデレータ:
• オオツキ・グラント・ジュン(東京大学)
パネリスト:
• アニタ・グルムルティ(IT for Change)
• ステフ・ライト(Scottish AI Alliance)
• 小齊平康子 (ソフトバンク株式会社)
• ヘン・イ・クァン (東京大学)

■ 17:20-17:30:閉会の挨拶 
林 香里(東京大学)

詳細:https://baiforum.jp/events/en078

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Program

Moderator
Ai Hisano (University of Tokyo)

■13:00-13:15 : Opening Remarks
Atsushi Tsuda (University of Tokyo) 

■13:15-13:55: Reflections on the first 5 years of the B’AI Global Forum 
Yuko Itatsu (University of Tokyo)  

■14:00-14:45 :Keynote Speech 1 “Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in the Epoch of AI: Lessons from Southern Feminism”
Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change)

■15:00-15:45:Keynote Speech 2 “Reframing the narrative of our AI future”
Steph Wright (Scottish AI Alliance)

■16:00-17:20:Panel discussion
Moderator:
• Grant Jun Otsuki (University of Tokyo)
Panelists:
• Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change)
• Steph Wright (Scottish AI Alliance)
• Yasuko Kosaihira (SoftBank Corp.)
• Yee Kuang Heng (University of Tokyo)

■17:20-17:30:Closing Remarks  
Kaori Hayashi (University of Tokyo)

For more details: https://baiforum.jp/en/events/en078

[開催案内] B’AI Global Forum × CulturIA 共同ワークショップ:Cultural Imaginaries of AI: From Technology to Art 開催のお知らせ(2024年5月13日) [Event Information] B’AI Global Forum × CulturIA:Cultural Imaginaries of AI: From technology to art

B’AIグローバル・フォーラムでは、フランス国立研究機構(Agence nationale de la recherche)のAI文化史プロジェクト(CulturIA) と共同で、AIをめぐるさまざまな文化的想像や実践に関する批判的研究を紹介するワークショップを開催いたします。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■ 主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum / フランス国立研究機構(ANR)CulturIA
■ 後援:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 / フランス国立研究機構(ANR)
■ 日時: 2024年5月13日(月) 16:00-19:30(日本時間)
2024年5月13日(月)9:00-12:30(中央ヨーロッパ夏時間(CEST))
■ 形式:Zoomウェビナーによるオンライン開催
■ 言語:英語(通訳なし)
■ 参加方法:参加には事前申し込みが必要となります。下記URLよりお申し込みください。   
https://bit.ly/baiglobalforum
    
■ お問い合わせ:
B’AI Global Forum事務局
bai.gf.inquiry [at] gmail.com ([at]を@に変更してください)

B’AI Global Forum is excited to announce an upcoming event in collaboration with the Cultural History of AI project (CulturIA) of Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR). The event aims to explore the diverse cultural practices and imaginations surrounding AI. We welcome anyone interested in the subject to participate.

■ Date(s): Central European Summer Time (CEST): May 13, 2024 (Mon) 9:00-12:30
Japan Standard Time (JST): May 13, 2024 (Mon) 16:00-19:30
■ Format: Online (Zoom Webinar)
■ Language: English
■ How to register: Pre-registration required. Please register using the URL below.
https://bit.ly/baiglobalforum

■ Organizer: CulturIA; B’AI Global Forum, The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
■ Supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche; The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

■ Inquiry
B’AI Global Forum Office
bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com(Please change [at] to @)

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■ プログラム

16:00-16:20(9:00-9:20 CEST) 開会の挨拶  
Alexandre Gefen (CNRS) / 板津木綿子(東京大学)

16:30-17:50(9:30-10:50 CEST) セッション1 
モデレーター:Carla Marand (The Sciences Po Center for History)
・久野 愛(東京大学)“Technology as Practice: Body, Materiality, and Aesthetic Intelligence”
・Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) “The Visible and the Sayable.
On the Biases of Text-to-Image Models and the Strategies to Counter Them”
・Galina Shyndriayeva(武蔵大学/ 東京大学)
“Automating Creativity: Artificial Intelligence in Perfumery and Design”

ディスカッション(20分)

18:00-19:20(11:00-12:20 CEST) セッション2
モデレーター:Carla Marand (The Sciences Po Center for History) 
・Lionel Obadia (Université Lumière Lyon 2) “‘Official’ Aesthetics and Narratives of AI in Contrast: Comparing Japan and France”
・板津木綿子(東京大学)“To love and be loved: Tales of the Fictoromantic”
・Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) & Gwenola Wagon (Artist/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
“Uncanny homes: living in AI”

ディスカッション(20分)

19:20–19:30(12:20–12:30 CEST) 閉会の挨拶
板津木綿子(東京大学)

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■ Program

9:00-9:20 (CEST) 16:00-16:20 (JST) Opening Remarks
Alexandre Gefen (CNRS)/Yuko Itatsu (The University of Tokyo)

9:30-10:50 (CEST) 16:30-17:50 (JST) Session1 
Moderator: Carla Marand (The Sciences Po Center for History)
• Ai Hisano (The University of Tokyo): “Technology as Practice: Body, Materiality, and Aesthetic Intelligence”
• Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3):
“The Visible and the Sayable. On the Biases of Text-to-Image Models and the Strategies to Counter Them”
• Galina Shyndriayeva (Musashi University/The University of Tokyo):
“Automating Creativity: Artificial Intelligence in Perfumery and Design”

Discussion(20 min.)

11:00-12:20 (CEST) 18:00-19:20 (JST) Session 2
Moderator: Carla Marand (The Sciences Po Center for History)
• Lionel Obadia (Université Lumière Lyon 2):
“‘Official’ Aesthetics and Narratives of AI in Contrast: Comparing Japan and France”
• Yuko Itatsu (The University of Tokyo): “To love and be loved: Tales of the Fictoromantic”
• Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) & Gwenola Wagon (Artist/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
“Uncanny homes: living in AI”Discussion(20 min.)

12:20–12:30 (CEST) 19:20–19:30 (JST) Closing Remarks  
Yuko Itatsu (The University of Tokyo)

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■ 発表者・発表要旨(発表順)

Alexandre Gefen

BIO: Alexandre Gefen, Directeur de Recherche (Full Research Professor) at the CNRS Theory and History of Modern Art and Literature Laboratory (UMR7172, THALIM, CNRS / University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3- Ecole Normale Supérieure), is a historian of ideas and literature. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on culture, contemporary literature and literary theory. He was one of the pioneers of Digital Humanities in France. He is the director of the Culturia IA research project, which focuses on the history and cultural issues of artificial intelligence. Latest books: Territoires de la non-fiction, Brill, 2020. With Olivier Bessard-Banquy and Sylvie Ducas, Best-sellers. L’industrie du succès, Armand Colin, 2021. L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention, Corti, 2021. La littérature est une affaire politique, L’Observatoire, 2022. La littérature, une infographie, CNRS éditions, 2022. Créativités artificielles, Les Presses du réel, 2023. Vivre avec ChatGPT, L’Observatoire, 2023.

Session 1

Ai Hisano
“Technology as Practice: Body, Materiality, and Aesthetic Intelligence”

This presentation explores how AI has changed people’s sensory experience, as well as their understanding of surrounding environments through their senses. There has been an increasing interest among engineers in the development of AI technologies that could detect, and reproduce, various sensory stimuli, including smell, taste, and tactility. Such technologies are believed to have the potential to, for example, help businesses create products with new kinds of sensory appeal and enhance people’s sensory experience. But “sensory experience” of whom, and in what context?
As scholars in the history of the senses and related fields have shown, the senses are not merely biological or personal phenomena. Nor are they ahistorical. Sensory experiences are shared experiences embedded in certain cultures. I argue that it is important to look at the senses from social and cultural perspectives and foster what could be called “aesthetic intelligence” to better understand the multifaceted implications of AI technologies in society.
In analyzing the technological impact on the human body, particularly sensations, I propose to look at “technology” not merely as a functional material object but also as practice. Technology does not exist in a vacuum—it has to be situated in a broader historical context. By doing so, we can understand how technology is made and used, by whom, and for what purposes. This “archeology” of technologies helps us see not only their technical components but also their political, social, cultural, and ecological implications.

BIO: Ai Hisano is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. She specializes in the history of technology, the history of the senses, and business history. She is the author of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard University Press, 2019).

Antonio Somaini
“The Visible and the Sayable. On the Biases of Text-to-Image Models and the Strategies to Counter Them”

The presentation will tackle the question of the biases that appear in the images generated by the three currently most popular text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney) and on the various strategies adopted in order to counter them. Starting from an analysis of the structure, the contents, the sources, and the guiding criteria of the dataset that was used to train Stable Diffusion, LAION-5B, we will show that some of such biases and limits are already inscribed in the training sets. Through concrete examples of images generated with different versions of the three models, we will also show how the companies that manage them have come up with strategies in order to counter such biases. Among them, the choice of eliminating from the training sets images that are considered to be “not safe for work” (NTSF), of adding “hidden prompts” (also called “pre-prompts”) to the users’s prompts, and of introducing different forms of “prompt censorship” (through so-called “banned prompts”). These various strategies show that, in their current stage of development, text-to-image models are a contested field, in which what is visible is strictly dependent on what is sayable. What can be visualized out of the vast spectrum of images that are contained in the latent space of the models as statistical possibilities, depends on what can be written in the words and texts used as prompts. Among the examples that will be tackled in order to analyze these questions, there will be AI-generated images by artists and photographers such as Grégory Chatonsky, Boris Eldagsen, David Fathi, and Hito Steyerl.

BIO: Antonio Somaini is professor of film, media, and visual culture theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), working on a research project which tackles the impact of AI technologies on images, photography, cinema, contemporary art and visual culture. Among his latest publications, the article “Algorithmic Images : Artificial Intelligence and Visual Culture” (Grey Room 93, Fall 2023), the book Culture visuelle. Images, regards, médias, dispositifs (with Andrea Pinotti, Les Presses du Réel, 2022), and the editing of the books Repenser le médium. Art contemporain et cinéma (with Larisa Dryansky and Riccardo Venturi, Les Presses du Réel, 2022) and La haute et la basse définition des images (with Francesco Casetti, Mimésis, 2021). In 2020 he has been the chief curator of the exhibition Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities (Parma, Italie, catalogue published by Skira), and he is currently co-curating the exhibitionLe monde selon l’IA / The World Through AI for the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.

Galina Shyndriayeva
“Automating Creativity: Artificial Intelligence in Perfumery and Design”

The program for this conference states that “art…enables us to understand the historical depth of the science and technology at the heart of contemporary artificial intelligence.” Creative industries are often at the nexus of art, science, and technology, complicated by a commercial imperative. In this talk, I would like to review some of the salient issues arising from the use of AI in design, first from a general overview of AI in design and secondly from the specific case of AI in the fragrance industry, focusing in particular on automating creativity. As scholars of science and the senses have examined, in twentieth-century perfumery and related industries, there exists an important history of projects to make the subjective objective, that is, of creating systems to classify and measure and predict likes and dislikes, pleasant sensations and unpleasant sensations, and to instrumentatlize individual sensory evaluation. These have implications in how consumers have been imagined, analyzed, and marketed to, and have shaped the sensory experience of everyday life. What sort of analysis and action does the use of AI in fragrance design and evaluation allow? In what ways is it a continuation of previous systems? What does it mean to smell, and to smell good, at this moment with AI? This talk will offer a review of current practices and apprehensions, as well as offer some tentative conclusions from comparison with related historical cases centering on automating creativity.

BIO: Galina Shyndriayeva is currently a Researcher at Musashi University, Tokyo, and a Visiting Researcher of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Her current book project, Sensual Science: expertise, craft, and chemical invention in global perfumery, 1900-2000, focuses on the development of the perfume industry in the twentieth century. She holds a PhD in history from King’s College London, MSc from Imperial College London, and a BA from Harvard University, and previously taught at the University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor.

Session 2

Lionel Obadia
“‘Official’ Aesthetics and Narratives of AI in Contrast: Comparing Japan and France”

The collective representations and attitudes towards AI are embedded in a certain symbolism and worldviews that are framed by and framing for the experience of technologies in everyday life (from an anthropological point of view). AI and robotics are therefore entrenched in Political programs and narratives: studying the ways these “official” narratives are exhibited in technological museums (Miraikan in Japan and Cité des Sciences in France) I will discuss the common and contrasting views on AI and technological developments, as a first step towards the deconstruction of the so-called “cultural acceptability” of these technologies in their respective cultural backgrounds.

BIO: Lionel Obadia, PhD in Sociology (1997), was Associate Professor in Ethnology at the University of Lille (1998–2004) and is Full Professor of Anthropology (since 2004) at the University of Lyon, France. He also teaches in other French universities (EHESS, EPHE, SciencePo). He is a specialist of anthropology of religion, Asian religions, and globalization. His works focus on hybridization and cultural/religious transfers. He has conducted fieldworks in France, Europe (on Buddhism in the West), Nepal (on Buddhism and Shamanism), the United States and Israel (on Jewish messianism), and South India (in Auroville). His research now explores the relationships between religions and digital technologies with fieldworks in Europe and Japan. He has published 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals ; 21 books : 12 monographs and 9 edited books ; 17 edition of journal special issues ; 52 book chapters, 107 conferences proceedings, 25 reviews. For the detail of publications see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lionel_Obadia

Yuko Itatsu
“To love and be loved: Tales of the Fictoromantic”

Forty percent of people residing in Japan live in single-person households. One and a half million people in Japan live socially recluse. Japan has entered the “marriage ice age,” where young people are reluctant to get married. One in six young people have romantic feelings towards two-dimensional characters in Japan. More than 4000 men in Japan have “married” two-dimensional characters.
This presentation explores the rhetoric used by those who marry two-dimensional characters and their justification for seeking social acknowledgment of their relationship. By analyzing the tales given by these people, the paper hopes to create a taxonomy of the rhetoric used in such storytelling. As a conceptual reference, the art piece “hybrid couple” by Dutch/Spanish artist Alicia Framis will be cited as it experiments with a human relationship with a hologram. In addition, this paper hopes to explore the correlation between the rise of fictoromantics and the increase in single-person households, especially in technologically advanced countries. What does it say about the societal and cultural backdrop that more people are exploring cross-dimensional relationships with fictional characters? What is it about the pursuit of self-fulfillment that encourages engagement with AI-generated two-dimensional characters? How do fictoromantic relationships fit into the current narratives of couplehood? By addressing these questions, this paper aims to offer insight into the role of AI in the evolving nature of human and computer interaction as it intersects with human desire for relationships.

BIO: Yuko Itatsu is a professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. She is the director of the B’AI Global Forum, which examines the social implications of artificial intelligence, especially as it relates to marginalized populations. She is a social and cultural historian of the 20th century and beyond. She and Ai Hisano co-edited Understanding AI in Society: How technology exerts power (University of Tokyo, 2023; in Japanese).

Pierre Cassou-Noguès & Gwenola Wagon
“Uncanny homes: living in AI”

We’ll be using images we’ve generated on Dall-e and Midjourney to explore the uncanniness that generative AIs sometimes produce. The first project we’ll look at concerns real estate ads. As we know, they all look rather similar. Thus it os not surprising that an algorithm manages to produce new ads, both text and images. However, the images of AI-generated housing take on a particular uncanniness that needs to be questioned. At stake is the exact degree of our familiarity with our dwellings, for which we do not project such definite features as we do for another human, or another living being, but in which we nevertheless project an affective content.
In the second part, we propose to explore more broadly the principle whereby generative AIs defamiliarize us with the familiar through their ability to abstract atmospheres and reproduce them on entirely different contents.

BIO: Pierre Cassou-Noguès is Full Professor in the department of philosophy of University Paris 8. He is co-editor of the journal SubStance, published by John Hopkins Univ. Press. His work concern the role of the imagination in science and technology. His books include Les démons de Gödel (which has been translated in Japanese in 2021), and more recently La bienveillance des machines, The benevolence of machines, Seuil, 2022.

BIO: Gwenola Wagon is an artist and researcher. She is Full Professor at the Sorbonne School of Arts and the University of Paris 1. Through installations, films and books, she imagines alternative and paradoxical narratives for thinking the contemporary digital world. She investigating the space of hyperinformation and Internet infrastructures in collaboration with artist Stéphane Degoutin, with whom she has co-produced numerous pieces, including Cyborgs dans la brume and World Brain, and the book Psychanalyse de l’aéroport international. The links between media development and spiritualist practices are the subject of research projects and exhibitions such as Media Mediums and Haunted by Algorithms with Jeff Guess. After Erewhon and Virusland, two post-cybernetic fables co-directed with the philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès, she published the book Planète B , an essay that mixes investigation and fiction in order to apprehend a monster in full expansion.

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■ Presenters & Abstracts (presentation order)

Alexandre Gefen

BIO: Alexandre Gefen, Directeur de Recherche (Full Research Professor) at the CNRS Theory and History of Modern Art and Literature Laboratory (UMR7172, THALIM, CNRS / University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3- Ecole Normale Supérieure), is a historian of ideas and literature. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on culture, contemporary literature and literary theory. He was one of the pioneers of Digital Humanities in France. He is the director of the Culturia IA research project, which focuses on the history and cultural issues of artificial intelligence. Latest books: Territoires de la non-fiction, Brill, 2020. With Olivier Bessard-Banquy and Sylvie Ducas, Best-sellers. L’industrie du succès, Armand Colin, 2021. L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention, Corti, 2021. La littérature est une affaire politique, L’Observatoire, 2022. La littérature, une infographie, CNRS éditions, 2022. Créativités artificielles, Les Presses du réel, 2023. Vivre avec ChatGPT, L’Observatoire, 2023.

Session 1

Ai Hisano
“Technology as Practice: Body, Materiality, and Aesthetic Intelligence”

This presentation explores how AI has changed people’s sensory experience, as well as their understanding of surrounding environments through their senses. There has been an increasing interest among engineers in the development of AI technologies that could detect, and reproduce, various sensory stimuli, including smell, taste, and tactility. Such technologies are believed to have the potential to, for example, help businesses create products with new kinds of sensory appeal and enhance people’s sensory experience. But “sensory experience” of whom, and in what context?
As scholars in the history of the senses and related fields have shown, the senses are not merely biological or personal phenomena. Nor are they ahistorical. Sensory experiences are shared experiences embedded in certain cultures. I argue that it is important to look at the senses from social and cultural perspectives and foster what could be called “aesthetic intelligence” to better understand the multifaceted implications of AI technologies in society.
In analyzing the technological impact on the human body, particularly sensations, I propose to look at “technology” not merely as a functional material object but also as practice. Technology does not exist in a vacuum—it has to be situated in a broader historical context. By doing so, we can understand how technology is made and used, by whom, and for what purposes. This “archeology” of technologies helps us see not only their technical components but also their political, social, cultural, and ecological implications.

BIO: Ai Hisano is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. She specializes in the history of technology, the history of the senses, and business history. She is the author of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard University Press, 2019).

Antonio Somaini
“The Visible and the Sayable. On the Biases of Text-to-Image Models and the Strategies to Counter Them”

The presentation will tackle the question of the biases that appear in the images generated by the three currently most popular text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney) and on the various strategies adopted in order to counter them. Starting from an analysis of the structure, the contents, the sources, and the guiding criteria of the dataset that was used to train Stable Diffusion, LAION-5B, we will show that some of such biases and limits are already inscribed in the training sets. Through concrete examples of images generated with different versions of the three models, we will also show how the companies that manage them have come up with strategies in order to counter such biases. Among them, the choice of eliminating from the training sets images that are considered to be “not safe for work” (NTSF), of adding “hidden prompts” (also called “pre-prompts”) to the users’s prompts, and of introducing different forms of “prompt censorship” (through so-called “banned prompts”). These various strategies show that, in their current stage of development, text-to-image models are a contested field, in which what is visible is strictly dependent on what is sayable. What can be visualized out of the vast spectrum of images that are contained in the latent space of the models as statistical possibilities, depends on what can be written in the words and texts used as prompts. Among the examples that will be tackled in order to analyze these questions, there will be AI-generated images by artists and photographers such as Grégory Chatonsky, Boris Eldagsen, David Fathi, and Hito Steyerl.

BIO: Antonio Somaini is professor of film, media, and visual culture theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), working on a research project which tackles the impact of AI technologies on images, photography, cinema, contemporary art and visual culture. Among his latest publications, the article “Algorithmic Images : Artificial Intelligence and Visual Culture” (Grey Room 93, Fall 2023), the book Culture visuelle. Images, regards, médias, dispositifs (with Andrea Pinotti, Les Presses du Réel, 2022), and the editing of the books Repenser le médium. Art contemporain et cinéma (with Larisa Dryansky and Riccardo Venturi, Les Presses du Réel, 2022) and La haute et la basse définition des images (with Francesco Casetti, Mimésis, 2021). In 2020 he has been the chief curator of the exhibition Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities (Parma, Italie, catalogue published by Skira), and he is currently co-curating the exhibitionLe monde selon l’IA / The World Through AI for the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.

Galina Shyndriayeva
“Automating Creativity: Artificial Intelligence in Perfumery and Design”

The program for this conference states that “art…enables us to understand the historical depth of the science and technology at the heart of contemporary artificial intelligence.” Creative industries are often at the nexus of art, science, and technology, complicated by a commercial imperative. In this talk, I would like to review some of the salient issues arising from the use of AI in design, first from a general overview of AI in design and secondly from the specific case of AI in the fragrance industry, focusing in particular on automating creativity. As scholars of science and the senses have examined, in twentieth-century perfumery and related industries, there exists an important history of projects to make the subjective objective, that is, of creating systems to classify and measure and predict likes and dislikes, pleasant sensations and unpleasant sensations, and to instrumentatlize individual sensory evaluation. These have implications in how consumers have been imagined, analyzed, and marketed to, and have shaped the sensory experience of everyday life. What sort of analysis and action does the use of AI in fragrance design and evaluation allow? In what ways is it a continuation of previous systems? What does it mean to smell, and to smell good, at this moment with AI? This talk will offer a review of current practices and apprehensions, as well as offer some tentative conclusions from comparison with related historical cases centering on automating creativity.

BIO: Galina Shyndriayeva is currently a Researcher at Musashi University, Tokyo, and a Visiting Researcher of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Her current book project, Sensual Science: expertise, craft, and chemical invention in global perfumery, 1900-2000, focuses on the development of the perfume industry in the twentieth century. She holds a PhD in history from King’s College London, MSc from Imperial College London, and a BA from Harvard University, and previously taught at the University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor.

Session 2

Lionel Obadia
“‘Official’ Aesthetics and Narratives of AI in Contrast: Comparing Japan and France”

The collective representations and attitudes towards AI are embedded in a certain symbolism and worldviews that are framed by and framing for the experience of technologies in everyday life (from an anthropological point of view). AI and robotics are therefore entrenched in Political programs and narratives: studying the ways these “official” narratives are exhibited in technological museums (Miraikan in Japan and Cité des Sciences in France) I will discuss the common and contrasting views on AI and technological developments, as a first step towards the deconstruction of the so-called “cultural acceptability” of these technologies in their respective cultural backgrounds.

BIO: Lionel Obadia, PhD in Sociology (1997), was Associate Professor in Ethnology at the University of Lille (1998–2004) and is Full Professor of Anthropology (since 2004) at the University of Lyon, France. He also teaches in other French universities (EHESS, EPHE, SciencePo). He is a specialist of anthropology of religion, Asian religions, and globalization. His works focus on hybridization and cultural/religious transfers. He has conducted fieldworks in France, Europe (on Buddhism in the West), Nepal (on Buddhism and Shamanism), the United States and Israel (on Jewish messianism), and South India (in Auroville). His research now explores the relationships between religions and digital technologies with fieldworks in Europe and Japan. He has published 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals ; 21 books : 12 monographs and 9 edited books ; 17 edition of journal special issues ; 52 book chapters, 107 conferences proceedings, 25 reviews. For the detail of publications see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lionel_Obadia

Yuko Itatsu
“To love and be loved: Tales of the Fictoromantic”

Forty percent of people residing in Japan live in single-person households. One and a half million people in Japan live socially recluse. Japan has entered the “marriage ice age,” where young people are reluctant to get married. One in six young people have romantic feelings towards two-dimensional characters in Japan. More than 4000 men in Japan have “married” two-dimensional characters.
This presentation explores the rhetoric used by those who marry two-dimensional characters and their justification for seeking social acknowledgment of their relationship. By analyzing the tales given by these people, the paper hopes to create a taxonomy of the rhetoric used in such storytelling. As a conceptual reference, the art piece “hybrid couple” by Dutch/Spanish artist Alicia Framis will be cited as it experiments with a human relationship with a hologram. In addition, this paper hopes to explore the correlation between the rise of fictoromantics and the increase in single-person households, especially in technologically advanced countries. What does it say about the societal and cultural backdrop that more people are exploring cross-dimensional relationships with fictional characters? What is it about the pursuit of self-fulfillment that encourages engagement with AI-generated two-dimensional characters? How do fictoromantic relationships fit into the current narratives of couplehood? By addressing these questions, this paper aims to offer insight into the role of AI in the evolving nature of human and computer interaction as it intersects with human desire for relationships.

BIO: Yuko Itatsu is a professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. She is the director of the B’AI Global Forum, which examines the social implications of artificial intelligence, especially as it relates to marginalized populations. She is a social and cultural historian of the 20th century and beyond. She and Ai Hisano co-edited Understanding AI in Society: How technology exerts power (University of Tokyo, 2023; in Japanese).

Pierre Cassou-Noguès & Gwenola Wagon
“Uncanny homes: living in AI”

We’ll be using images we’ve generated on Dall-e and Midjourney to explore the uncanniness that generative AIs sometimes produce. The first project we’ll look at concerns real estate ads. As we know, they all look rather similar. Thus it os not surprising that an algorithm manages to produce new ads, both text and images. However, the images of AI-generated housing take on a particular uncanniness that needs to be questioned. At stake is the exact degree of our familiarity with our dwellings, for which we do not project such definite features as we do for another human, or another living being, but in which we nevertheless project an affective content.
In the second part, we propose to explore more broadly the principle whereby generative AIs defamiliarize us with the familiar through their ability to abstract atmospheres and reproduce them on entirely different contents.

BIO: Pierre Cassou-Noguès is Full Professor in the department of philosophy of University Paris 8. He is co-editor of the journal SubStance, published by John Hopkins Univ. Press. His work concern the role of the imagination in science and technology. His books include Les démons de Gödel (which has been translated in Japanese in 2021), and more recently La bienveillance des machines, The benevolence of machines, Seuil, 2022.

BIO: Gwenola Wagon is an artist and researcher. She is Full Professor at the Sorbonne School of Arts and the University of Paris 1. Through installations, films and books, she imagines alternative and paradoxical narratives for thinking the contemporary digital world. She investigating the space of hyperinformation and Internet infrastructures in collaboration with artist Stéphane Degoutin, with whom she has co-produced numerous pieces, including Cyborgs dans la brume and World Brain, and the book Psychanalyse de l’aéroport international. The links between media development and spiritualist practices are the subject of research projects and exhibitions such as Media Mediums and Haunted by Algorithms with Jeff Guess. After Erewhon and Virusland, two post-cybernetic fables co-directed with the philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès, she published the book Planète B , an essay that mixes investigation and fiction in order to apprehend a monster in full expansion.

第59回研究セミナー 「10-20代女性のデジタルテクノロジーの利用実態とAI/アルゴリズムに対する意識調査」 The 59th Research Seminar: The Usage Patterns of Digital Technology among Female in Their Late Teens and Twenties and Their Attitudes toward AI/Algorithms

2024年4月2日 第59回研究セミナー「10-20代女性のデジタルテクノロジーの利用実態とAI/アルゴリズムに対する意識調査」を開催いたしました。
スピーカー:
B’AIグローバルフォーラム 「AIアルゴリズムとジェンダー不平等」研究グループ



The 59th Research Seminar was held on April 2, 2024.
Title: The Usage Patterns of Digital Technology among Female in Their Late Teens and Twenties and Their Attitudes toward AI/Algorithms
Speaker:
B'AI Global Forum "AI Algorithms and Gender Inequality" Research Group

[開催案内] Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen講演会「『迷路で実体化したデータ』から『ありのままの自然を受け入れる器』へ: AIを(再)想像するためのインフラあるいは実験的集合体としてのメディア環境」開催のご案内 [Event Information] Lecture by Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen “From “Data Made Flesh in the Mazes” to “A Vessel that Accepts Nature as It Is”: Media Environments as Infrastructures and Experimental Assemblages to Imagine and Re-imagining AI”

B’AIグローバル・フォーラムでは、ヨーロッパ応用科学大学芸術デザイン学部教授のJiré Emine Gözen氏をお招きし、「『迷路で実体化したデータ』から『ありのままの自然を受け入れる器』へ: AIを(再)想像するためのインフラあるいは実験的集合体としてのメディア環境」というテーマでご講演いただきます。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■ 主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
■ 後援:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構
■ 日時:2024年3月19日(火)16:00-17:30(日本時間)
■ 形式:対面(※先着20名)およびZoomによるハイブリッド開催
■ 対面会場:東京大学浅野キャンパス理学部3号館327
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html
■ 言語:英語(通訳なし)
■ 参加方法:対面参加の場合3月13日(水)まで、オンライン参加の場合3月17日(日)までに、下記URLよりお申し込みください。   
https://forms.gle/nB2tC2tgYmeL77367
    
■ お問い合わせ:
B’AI Global Forum事務局
bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com([at]を@に変えてください)

The B’AI Global Forum will hold a talk by Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen entitled “From “Data Made Flesh in the Mazes” to “A Vessel that Accepts Nature as It Is”: Media Environments as Infrastructures and Experimental Assemblages to Imagine and Re-imagining AI” on March 19, 2024.

■ Date(s): March 19, 2024 (Tue), 4:00~5:30 pm (JST)
■ Format: On-site (up to 20 participants) & Online Hybrid
■ On-site: :Room 327, Faculty of Science Bldg.3 (The University of Tokyo, Asano Campus)
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html
■ Language: English
■ How to register: For on-site participation, please register below by 13 March (Wed); to participate via Zoom please register below by 17 March (Sun).
For on-site participation, please register below by 11 February (Sun).
・Please register the application form below.
https://forms.gle/nB2tC2tgYmeL77367

■ Organizer: B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
■ Supported by The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

■ Inquiry
B’AI Global Forum Office
bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com(Please change [at] to @)

■ 講演者
Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen(ヨーロッパ応用科学大学芸術デザイン学部教授)
Jiré Emine Gözen氏はメディア・文化理論の教授であり、ベルリンのヨーロッパ応用科学大学芸術デザイン学部で教鞭をとっている。また、2020年9月よりGesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft(ドイツにおけるメディア学会)の会長に選出された。
彼女はメディア文化研究、メディア美学、視覚文化を中心に、アートと理論の交差点に位置する研究を行っている。彼女の研究は、批評理論、ジェンダーおよびクィア・スタディーズ、ポストコロニアル理論、新唯物論的視点、そしてテクノロジー研究の影響を受けている。
森美術館、3331 Arts Chiyoda、デザイン・フェスタ・ギャラリーなどでの勤務を含め、日本で数年間を過ごし、現在では、人間と機械の関係やAI、未来のテクノロジー、ポストヒューマニズムをめぐる語りや言説が研究の中心となっている。加えて、プレイボーイ誌を中心に、「破壊的な」男性性の視覚的構築について批判的に検証している。また、政治、科学、メディアにおける模倣の現象を探求し、ドナルド・トランプやイーロン・マスクなどの著名人、オルト・ライトやテロリストの運動などを掘り下げている。

■ 講演要旨
人間、機械、自然、人工知能の相互作用は、芸術や文学における思弁的な語りを通して探求されており、私たちが共有する「社会技術的想像力」に反映される社会の認識や議論を大きく形づくっている。本講演では、AIに対する想像や再想像が展開される実験的なインフラや集合体として、芸術や文学におけるさまざまなメディア環境を掘り下げていく。そしてウィリアム・ギブソンの「マトリックス」(1984年)という概念と、豊島美術館にある内藤礼の「母型」(2010年)という作品に焦点を当て、AIとポストヒューマニズムの未来についての対照的な構想を明らかにする。すなわち、ギブソンの構想が支配的な語りの繰り返しを想起させるのに対し、内藤の解釈は新唯物論の視点と絡み合い、土着的な認識論へと向かう、異なる道を提示している。

■ Lecturer
Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen(Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Europe for Applied Sciences)

Jiré Emine Gözen is a professor of Media and Cultural Theory and teaches at the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin, she has served as Vice-President of International Affairs and University Development since October 2023. She also has been elected as Chairperson of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (German Society for Media Studies) since September 2020.
Her research is situated at the intersection of art and theory, focusing on media cultural studies, media aesthetics, and visual culture. Her work is influenced by critical theory, gender and queer studies, postcolonial theories, and new materialistic perspectives, as well as science and technology studies.
Having spent several years living and working in Japan, including working at institutions such as the Mori Art Museum, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, and Design Festa Gallery, her research now centers on narratives and discourses surrounding human-machine relations and AI, future technologies, and posthumanism. Additionally, she critically examines the visual construction of “subversive” masculinity, with a particular focus on Playboy Magazine. She also explores the phenomenon of mimicry in politics, science, and media, delving into figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as well as alt-right and terrorist movements.

She is an active member of the Forum Antirassismus Medienwissenschaft (Anti-Racism in Media Studies). She has contributed significantly to the field as part of the guest editor team for issue 26 of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal for Media Studies), titled “X|Kein Lagebericht” (2022), which examines the intertwining of racism with (media) science and Western epistemologies. Since 2022, she has co-edited GAAAP_ The Blog of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal for Media Studies), furthering her commitment to advancing critical discourse within the field.

■ Abstract
The interplay between man, machine, nature, and artificial intelligence, explored through speculative narratives in art and literature, significantly shapes societal perceptions and discussions that feed into our shared “sociotechnical imaginaries.” This presentation delves into differing media environments in art and literature as experimental infrastructures and assemblages through which imaginations and re-imaginations of AI unfold. Focusing on William Gibson’s notion of the “Matrix” (1984) alongside Rei Naito’s artwork “母型” (“Matrix”, 2010) situated within the Teshima Art Museum, this presentation discerns contrasting visions of AI and posthumanist futures. While Gibson’s vision evokes echoes of dominant narratives, Naito’s interpretation offers a divergent path, one that intertwines with New Materialist perspectives and paths the way towards indigenous epistemologies.

[開催案内] 「LGBTQ+の語りのデジタルアーカイブ化と倫理勉強会」 [Event Information] Colloquium on Ethical Digital Archiving of LGBTQ+ Narratives

東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forumは、「LGBTQ+の語りのデジタルアーカイブ化と倫理勉強会」を開催いたします。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■ 日時: 2024年2月11日(日)13:30-15:00, 2月12日(月 )10:30-14:30
■ 形式:対面形式 (30名まで)
■ 場所:東京大学浅野キャンパス理学部3号館327号室
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html
■ 言語:英語
■ 参加方法:2月1日(木)までに、以下のフォームからご登録ください。登録者には、勉強会の前にリーフレットをメールで送付します。  
https://x.gd/xnFUQ
■ 主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
    
■ お問い合わせ:
kyoko.takeuchi[a]iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp([a]を@に変更してください)

B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond will hold a Colloquium on Ethical Digital Archiving of LGBTQ+ Narratives
■ Date(s): February Sunday, February 11, 2024 ~ Monday, February 12, 2024
■ Venue: On-site (up to 30 participants), Room 327, Faculty of Science Bldg.3 (The University of Tokyo, Asano Campus)
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html
■ Language: English
■ Registration Pre-registration required.
Please register below by 1 February (Thursday). A brochure will be sent to your e-mail address a few days before the colloquium.
https://x.gd/xnFUQ
■ Organizer: B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
■ Inquiry
kyoko.takeuchi[a]iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp(Please change [at] to @)

■ 勉強会の概要
この勉強会では、3人の講演とそれに基づく議論から、LGBTQ+の語りをデジタルアーカイブ化することに関する可能性と課題を、倫理や方法、メディア技術などとの関係から多面的に検討することをめざしています。
社会で周縁化されやすい性的マイノリティにとって、過去の性的マイノリティの個々人やそのコミュニティと自らとのつながりをたどることができることは重要であり、各国でデジタルアーカイブ化の取り組みが始められています。しかし、プライバシーやコスト、コミュニティの信頼などに関する困難も指摘されていますし、アジアではLGBTQ+デジタルアーカイブの試みは数少ない状況です。
そこで1日目は「クィアな過去を刻む: 初期のLGBTQデジタル空間を記録することの課題」と題した講演において、Dr. Avery Dame-Griffから、著作『 The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (2023, NYU Press)』と「the Queer Digital History Project」に基づき、初期のLGBTQネットのアーカイブ化の資料保存やデザイン、プライバシーにかかわる困難についてお話いただきます。
2日目はアジアのLGBTQ+アーカイブについて検討します。まずDr. Kyoko Takeuchiによる講演「日本のLGBTQ+のアーカイブプロジェクトと倫理的課題を概観する」では、日本のこれまでのLGBTQ+(デジタル)アーカイブ化の現状と課題をまとめ、明確にLGBTQのカテゴリーに当てはまらない交差的な経験のアーカイブ化についてお話する予定です。
そしてDr. Michelle H. S. Hoの講演「アジアン・トランスアーカイブ:東京の女装・男装の研究から」では、東京での女装と男装の調査研究にもとづき、アジアのトランスアーカイブとは何かを検討することを通じて、伝統的な「西洋」の国家によるアーカイブや、「適切な」アーカイブ化の実践から零れ落ちる人々のストーリーについてお話いただきます。
この勉強会が、LGBTQ+のアーカイブに関わる地域・領域横断的な議論につながり、様々なバックグラウンドの研究者や学生の実り多いネットワーキングにつながることを願っています。

■ About the Colloquium
This colloquium aims to examine the possibilities and challenges of digital archiving LGBTQ+ narratives from multiple perspectives in relation to ethics, methods, and media technologies, based on the discussions of the three speakers.
For sexual minorities, who are often marginalized in society, it is important to be able to trace their own connections to queer individuals and their communities in the past, and digital archiving efforts have begun in many countries. However, various difficulties with privacy, cost, community trust, etc. have been pointed out, and there have been only a few attempts to create LGBTQ+ digital archives in Asia.
On the first day, in the talk "Logging Queer Pasts: The Challenges of Documenting Early LGBTQ Digital Spaces," Dr. Avery Dame-Griff(Gonzaga University) will discuss the difficulties involved in preservation, design, and privacy in archiving the early LGBTQ Net, based on his book "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (2023, NYU Press)" and the archiving project "the Queer Digital History Project" (queerdigital.com).
On the second day, we will focus on Asian LGBTQ+ archives.
In their talk "Overview of Japanese LGBTQ+ Archiving Projects and Ethical Concerns," Dr. Kyoko Takeuchi(UTokyo) will summarize the current status and challenges of LGBTQ+ (digital) archiving in Japan to date and discuss the archiving of intersectional experiences that do not fit explicitly into LGBTQ categories.
In addition, Dr. Michelle H. S. Ho's presentation, "Asian Trans Archives: Some Thoughts from Studying Josō (Male-to-Female Crossdressing) and Dansō (Female-to-Male Crossdressing) in Tokyo," will draw on her research on Josō and Dansō in Tokyo to examine the stories of those who fall outside of traditional "Western" national archives and "proper" archiving practices through an examination of what Asian trans archives are.

We hope that this colloquium will lead to cross-regional and cross-disciplinary discussions on LGBTQ+ archiving, and fruitful networking among researchers and students from various backgrounds.

[開催案内] Dr. Cait McMahon講演会「トラウマ報道 ジャーナリストのための心のレッスン」 [Event Information] B'AI Global Forum Lecture “Covering trauma: Building mental fitness for journalists”"

東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forumは、Dr. Cait McMahon講演会「トラウマ報道 ジャーナリストのための心のレッスン」を、2024年2月13日に開催いたします。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■ 主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum Trauma Reporting 研究会
■ 日時:2024年2月13日(火)14:00-16:00(日本時間)
■ 形式:Zoomウェビナー(後日、3月末までの期間限定で動画配信予定)
■ 言語:英語(逐次通訳あり)・日本語
■ 参加方法:2月11日(日)までに、下記URLよりお申し込みください。  
https://x.gd/wZ0dn
    
■ お問い合わせ:
kyoko.takeuchi[a]iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp([a]を@に変更してください)

B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond will hold a Lecture by Dr. Cait McMahon titled “Covering trauma: Building mental fitness for journalists” on February 13, 2024.

■ Date(s): February 13, 2024 (Tue), 14:00~16:00 pm (JST)
■ Format: Zoom Webinar (Archived videos will be available until the end of March)
■ Registration Pre-registration required.
For on-site participation, please register below by 11 February (Sun).
・Please register the application form below.
https://x.gd/wZ0dn
■ Language: English (Japanese interpretation) & Japanese

■ Organizer: Study group on Trauma Reporting, B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

■ Inquiry
kyoko.takeuchi[a]iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp(Please change [at] to @)

■ 講演者
Dr. Cait McMahon(Dart Center for Journalism & Traumaアジア太平洋地域拠点創設者、コンサルタント)
Cait McMahonさんはオーストラリアの心理学者で、トラウマとジャーナリズムの関わりについての世界的リーダーです。Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma(本部:米コロンビア大学)のアジア太平洋地域の拠点の創設マネジング・ディレクターを2003年から2021年まで務め、28カ国(その多くは、大規模自然災害が起きた国、紛争中や紛争後の国)のメディア関係者にトレーニングを行ってきました。現在は、‘Cait McMahonコンサルティング’のコンサルタントとして活動しています。そして引き続き、トラウマ曝露とレジリエンス(回復する力)について、個人やメディア組織の相談を受けて助言をしています。

■ 講演について
地震や豪雨などの災害や、戦争、紛争、事件事故に巻き込まれた人々の話を聞くとき、あるいは性暴力、虐待などの被害者を取材するとき、ジャーナリストは何を知っておくべきでしょうか。オーストラリアの心理学者、Dr. Cait McMahonに聞きます。
彼女は、国際的な組織Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma(本部:米コロンビア大学)のアジア太平洋地域の拠点(メルボルン)の創設者で、2021年まで運営にたずさわってきました。1980年代にメルボルンでThe Age紙のスタッフ・カウンセラーとして働き始めて以来、ジャーナリストとトラウマ(深い心の傷)の問題に関心を抱き、研究に進み、さまざまな国で講演や研修を実施。2016年に、この分野の貢献で、オーストラリア勲章(OAM)を受賞しています。
惨事報道などでトラウマに向き合うジャーナリストは、自分も影響を受けます。心身の変調のみならず、自分の仕事の意味を問い直すなど実存面にも影響を受けること、またストレス(posttraumatic stress)だけでなく成長をとげること(posttraumatic growth)もあることを、彼女はオーストラリアのジャーナリストを対象にした調査から明らかにしています。
今回の講演は、大学生からわかるように話していただきます。取材報道にたずさわる人、報道機関で研修や健康管理に関わる人、関心を持つ専門家の皆様、どうぞご参加ください。

■ Lecturer
Cait McMahon (the founding Managing Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma-Asia Pacific, an independent consultant for Cait McMahon Consulting)

Dr. Cait McMahon OAM is psychologist and world leader on the intersection of trauma and journalism. She currently works as an independent consultant for CMC (Cait McMahon Consulting) and was the founding Managing Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma-Asia Pacific (2003-2021) a project of Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. In that role she facilitated in-person training with media professionals across 28 nations, many of those in high natural disaster, conflict or post-conflict countries. She continues to consult to individuals and media organisations on trauma exposure and resilience.

■ About the lecture
What should journalists know when listening to people involved in disasters such as earthquakes and torrential rains, war, conflict, incidents and accidents, or when interviewing victims of sexual violence, abuse, etc.? Australian psychologist Dr. Cait McMahon will lecture on these topics.
She is the founder of the Asia Pacific regional office (Melbourne) of the international organization Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (headquartered at Columbia University, USA), which she managed until 2021. She began working as a staff counselor for The Age newspaper in Melbourne in the 1980s, and since then her interest in journalists and trauma (deep psychological trauma) issues led her to research, giving lectures and trainings in various countries. In 2016, she was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) for her contributions in this field.
Journalists who face trauma in their reporting of tragedies and other events are themselves affected. Her research with Australian journalists has shown that not only are they affected mentally and physically, but also existentially, by questioning the meaning of their work, and that there is not only posttraumatic stress, but also posttraumatic growth. All those involved in news reporting, training and health care in media organizations, and interested professionals are welcome to attend.

[開催案内] B’AI Global Forum講演会「AI時代における言語教育」 [Event Information] B'AI Global Forum Lecture "Language Education in the AI Era"

東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forumは、B'AI Global Forum講演会「AI時代における言語教育」を、2024年1月15日に開催いたします。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

・主催:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
・後援:東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構
・日時:2024年1月15日(月)15:30-17:00(日本時間)
・形式:対面(※先着25名)およびZoom Webinarによるハイブリッド開催
・対面会場:東京大学浅野キャンパス理学部3号館327号室
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html 
・言語:日本語
・参加方法:対面参加の場合1月9日(火)まで、オンライン参加の場合1月13日(土)までに、下記URLよりお申し込みください。  
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezxvWKczOH-JsWUKWPmB5lmtZXLReusbUWESh3vu28Nah92w/viewform
    
・お問い合わせ:
東京大学 B’AI Global Forum事務局
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B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond will hold a B'AI Global Forum Lecture "Language Education in the AI Era" on January 15, 2024.

・Date(s): January 15, 2024 (Mon), 3:30~5:00 pm (JST)
・Venue: On-site (up to 25 participants) & Zoom Webinar
・On-site:Room 327, Faculty of Science Bldg.3 (The University of Tokyo, Asano Campus)
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_06_03_j.html 
・Registration Pre-registration required.
For on-site participation, please register below by 9 January (Tue); to participate via Zoom please register below by 13 January (Sat).
・Please register the application form below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezxvWKczOH-JsWUKWPmB5lmtZXLReusbUWESh3vu28Nah92w/viewform
・Language: Japanese
・Organizer: B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
・Supported by The Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

この講演会では、長く東京大学で英語を教える立場におられ、Duolingo社の視察を行なった矢口祐人講師が、DuolingoをはじめとするAIを用いた英語教育の先進的な取り組みを踏まえ、大学の英語教育のあり方について論じます。そのお話を受けて、乳幼児の言語発達を神経心理学的なアプローチで考察している辻晶講師、言語学を専門とし、大学における英語教育の経歴も長い伊藤たかね講師の2名から、それぞれ異なる視点からのコメントを提示していただき、フロアとの議論につなげていきます。

<講師>
・矢口祐人(東京大学副学長;グローバル教育センター長))
・辻晶(東京大学ニューロインテリジェンス国際研究機構 講師)
・伊藤たかね(東京大学副学長;大学院情報学環 特任教授)

<モデレーター>
・板津木綿子(東京大学大学院情報学環 教授)

<プログラム>
■ 開会挨拶
林香里(東京大学理事・副学長;大学院情報学環教授)

■ 講演
矢口祐人「大学の語学教育と生成系AI」
生成系AIは大学の語学教育にどのような影響を及ぼすのでしょうか。ここではとくに英語教育に焦点をあてます。はたして大学の英語教育は現状のまま続けることは出来るのでしょうか。英語力の評価の方法は今まで通りで良いのでしょうか。ChatGPTやDuolingo/Duolingo English Test (DET)の時代における大学の英語教育のあり方について、議論を深めたいと思います。

辻 晶「言語発達から見た言語教育と生成AIの関係」
生成AIを大学の語学教育に活かすことは可能でしょうか?
はじめに、なぜ大人は子供より外国語習得が不得意なのかを論じます。それを踏まえて、子供が日常生活のなかで経験する自然な学習と、大人がおこなう学問的な学習の違いについて考えていきます。生成A Iによって、より多くの大人により自然な学習方法を提供することは可能でしょうか。

伊藤たかね「『異なる知の体系』に触れることの意義」
AIが大学の言語教育に及ぼす影響は、大別して(1)自動翻訳の発達による外国語教育不要論、(2)言語教育へのAI活用の具体的方法(と、その可否)、という二点に分けられそうです。ここでは、モノリンガル環境で育つ子供にとって「絶対的」存在である母語の体系を相対化する機会として外国語教育を捉え、(1)の不要論に疑問を呈し、それが(2)の活用方法にどのような意味を持ちうるのか、検討してみたいと思います。

■ 質疑応答&ディスカッション

■ 閉会挨拶
 伊藤たかね

Abstract:
In this lecture, Professor Yujin Yaguchi, who has been teaching English at the University of Tokyo for a long time and conducted a field study at Duolingo, will discuss the approach to university English education based on advanced initiatives in AI-driven English education, including Duolingo. Following his lecture, Dr. Sho Tsuji, who investigates language development in infants and young children through a neuroscientific approach, and Professor Takane Ito, a linguist with extensive experience in English education at the university level, will provide comments from different perspectives and engage in discussions with the audience.

Lecturers
・Yujin Yaguchi (Vice President; Director, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo)
・Sho Tsuji (Lecturer, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo)
・Takane Ito (Vice President; Project Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator
・Yuko Itatsu (Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Program:
■ Opening Remarks
・Kaori Hayashi (Executive Vice President; Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

■ Lectures
Yujin Yaguchi “University Language Education and Generative AI”
How does generative AI impact university language education? In this lecture, we specifically focus on English language education. Can university English education continue as it is now? Is the current method of evaluating English proficiency still effective? The lecture aims to delve into the approach to university English education in the era of ChatGPT and Duolingo/the Duolingo English Test (DET).

Sho Tsuji “Relationship Between Language Education and Generative AI from the Perspective of Language Development”
Is it possible to leverage generative AI in university language education?
Firstly, we will discuss why adults find it challenging to acquire foreign languages compared to children. Based on this, we will explore the differences between the natural learning that children experience in their daily lives and the scholarly learning undertaken by adults. The lecture aims to explore the possibility of generative AI offering a more natural learning approach to a larger adult population.

Takane Ito “The Significance of Engaging with ‘Different Knowledge Systems’”
The impact of AI on university language education can be broadly categorized into (1) the argument for the dispensability of foreign language education due to the development of automatic translation and (2) the specific methods of AI utilization in language education (and their feasibility). In this lecture, we aim to view foreign language education as an opportunity to contextualize the system of the native language, which is an "absolute" presence for children raised in a monolingual environment, to cast doubt on the discourse of (1) and explore its implications for the methods of (2).

■ Q&A/Discussions

■ Closing Remarks
Takane Ito

【Event Informaiton】 B’AI-UTokyo New York Event 【Event Informaiton】B’AI-UTokyo New York Event

The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age

The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age

近年、ChatGPTや検索エンジンなど、AI技術は私たちの生活に意識的・無意識的に浸透しつつあります。急速に開発が進み社会のあらゆる場面で使われ始めているAIは、イノベーションや便利さをもたらすのみならず、人々の脅威になりうることが多くの研究者・識者から指摘されています。AI技術が広まる中、私たちは何を考え、どのようにその最新技術と向き合うべきなのでしょうか。本イベントでは、特に高等教育においてAI技術がもたらす影響やAIといかに接していくべきなのか、日米の大学で豊富な教育経験を持つ研究者らが議論を深めます。

1日目は、AI技術について技術的側面のみならず、多分野横断的に社会的・文化的・政治的・倫理的観点から論じるとともに、国内外の研究者と連携を図るため、当イベントでは、日米から様々な分野の研究者を招き、ラウンドテーブル形式でディスカッションを行います。

2日目は、藤井輝夫東京大学総長とジョゼフ・アウン・ノースイースタン大学学長を招き対談を行います。

当イベントは、東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構のプロジェクトであるB’AIグローバルフォーラムが主催し、Beyond AI研究推進機構および東京大学ニューヨークオフィスの支援を得て開催します。

日程:
米国東部標準時(EST) 2023年12月14日(木)午後3:00-6:10(EST)
               12月15日(金)午後4:30-6:00(EST)
日本時間(JST) 2023年12月15日(金) 午前5:00-8:10(JST)
            12月16日(土)午前6:30-8:00(JST)
形式:ハイブリッド(対面 & オンライン) (※後日配信あり)
会場:東京大学ニューヨークオフィス
言語:英語
参加方法:参加には事前申し込みが必要です。下記URLよりお申し込みください。
 https://shorturl.at/dqsU3
※申込〆切: 2023年12月10日(日)
※対面参加の定員は30人です。定員に達したところで申込を締め切らせていただきますこと、ご了承願います。
主催:東京大学 Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AIグローバル・フォーラム
後援:東京大学 Beyond AI研究推進機構、東京大学ニューヨークオフィス
お問い合わせ:bai.gf.inquiry [at] gmail.com  ([a]を@に変更してください)

This two-day event invites participants to explore the social impact of AI technology in higher education, from political, cultural, and ethical perspectives. How should we understand the latest AI technologies? How should they be reflected in the future design of higher education? We will invite scholars from various fields in Japan and the United States to discuss multifaceted implications of AI technologies by looking not only at their technical aspects but also at their political, social, and cultural dimensions.

This event is organized by the B’AI Global Forum at the University of Tokyo and supported by the Institute for AI and Beyond and UTokyo New York Office.

Date & Venue
・ Dates:
 December 14, 2023 (Thu) 3:00-6:10 pm (EST)
  (December 15, 2023 (Fri) 5:00-8:10 am (JST))
 December 15, 2023 (Fri) 4:30-6:00 pm (EST)
  (December 16, 2023 (Sat) 6:30-8:00 am (JST))
・ Format: On-site & Online Hybrid
・ Venue: University of Tokyo New York Office
・ Registration: Pre-registration required.
Please register using the URL below by Dec 10, 2023.
https://shorturl.at/dqsU3
・ Language: English

※ Please note that the seating capacity at the NY Office is about 30 people. In-person registration will be closed once all the seats are taken.
※ We will publish the video of the event on the B’AI Global Forum YouTube channel.

プログラム

12月14日(木) (日本時間 12月15日(金))

■開会挨拶 15:00-15:20(15日 5:00-5:20 JST)  
板津 木綿子(東京大学大学院情報学環教授)

■B’AI編著紹介 15:20-15:35(15日 5:20-5:35 JST)
久野 愛(東京大学大学院情報学環准教授)

■【講演】「AIと高等教育」 15:40-16:40(15日 5:40-6:40 JST)
・Lauren Goodlad (ラトガース大学教授)
・Julia Stoyanovich (ニューヨーク大学准教授)
・Alexander Gil Fuentes (イェール大学准教授)

■【パネルディスカッション】 17:00-18:00(15日 7:00-8:00 JST)
[パネリスト] 
・Lauren Goodlad
・Julia Stoyanovich
・Alexander Gil Fuentes
・矢口 祐人(東京大学副学長)
[モデレーター] 
・板津 木綿子

■閉会挨拶 
林 香里(東京大学理事・副学長)

12月15日(金) (日本時間 12月16日(土))

■挨拶 16:30-16:45(16日 6:30-6:45 JST)  
林 香里(東京大学理事・副学長)

■対談 16:45-18:00(16日 6:45-8:00 JST)
・藤井 輝夫 (東京大学総長)
・Joseph E. Aoun (ノースイースタン大学学長)
[モデレーター] 
・Anna Esaki-Smith

Program

December 14 (EST) (December 15 (JST))

■Opening Remarks 3:00-3:20 pm (5:00-5:20 am, Dec 15 (JST))
Yuko Itatsu (Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo)

■Book Presentation “Understanding AI in Society” 3:20-3:35 pm (5:20-5:35 am, Dec 15 (JST))
Ai Hisano (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo)

■Expert Talks “AI and Higher Education” 3:40-4:40 pm (5:40-6:40 am, Dec 15 (JST)) 
・Lauren Goodlad (Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)
・Julia Stoyanovich (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Center for Data Science, New York University)
・Alexander Gil Fuentes (Associate Research Faculty, Digital Humanities, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University)

■Panel Discussion 5:00-6:00 pm (7:00-8:00 am, Dec 15 (JST)) 
[Panelist]:
・Lauren Goodlad
・Julia Stoyanovich
・Alexander Gil Fuentes
・Yujin Yaguchi (Vice President of Global Education, University of Tokyo)
[Moderator]:
・Yuko Itatsu

■Closing
Kaori Hayashi (Executive Vice President for Globalization, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Tokyo)

December 15 (EST) (December 16 (JST))

■Opening Remarks 4:30-4:45 pm (6:30-6:45 am, Dec 16 (JST))
Kaori Hayashi (Executive Vice President for Globalization, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Tokyo)

■Fireside Chat 4:45-6:00 pm (6:45-8:00 am, Dec 16 (JST)) (JST))
・Teruo Fujii (President, University of Tokyo)
・Joseph E. Aoun (President, Northeastern University)
[Moderator]:
・Anna Esaki-Smith

[開催案内] B’AIグローバル・フォーラムと東京カレッジとの共催による講演会「「セキュリテインメント」: 具現化されたAI、 エンターテインメント、 及び監視の関係性」 [Event Information] “SECURITAINMENT”: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance (Lecture by Prof. Jennifer ROBERTSON)

東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forumは、東京大学国際高等研究所東京カレッジとの共催で、この度、「「セキュリテインメント」: 具現化されたAI、 エンターテインメント、 及び監視の関係性」と題して、ミシガン大学のJennifer ROBERTSON名誉教授による講演会を開催することになりました。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

・主催:東京大学国際高等研究所東京カレッジ、東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
・日時:2023年11月27日(月)15:00-16:30
・形式:Zoomウェビナー
・言語:英語(日本語同時通訳)
・参加方法:参加には事前申し込みが必要です。下記URLよりお申し込みください。  
  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r_pJvZs9TemRCZCkTew7uQ#/registration
    
・お問い合わせ:tokyo.college.event[a]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp([a]を@に変更してください)
 

Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo/ B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond will hold a talk by Jennifer ROBERTSON (Tokyo College Professor, The University of Tokyo Professor Emerita, University of Michigan) entitled ““SECURITAINMENT”: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance” on November 27, 2023.

Date(s): Monday, 27 November 2023, 15:00-16:30
Venue: Zoom Webinar (Register here)
Registration Pre-registration required.
Please register the application form below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r_pJvZs9TemRCZCkTew7uQ#/registration
Language: English (Japanese interpretation)

<要旨>
CCTVカメラは東京をはじめ、日本の都市のいたるところに設置され、1980年代に導入された民間のセキュリティシステムも、ほとんどの家庭に標準装備されてきています。監視は日常生活、仕事、遊びまでにも組み込まれ、それは「見る方法 」となりつつ、「見られる方法」にも影響を与えています。本講演では、Robertson教授がAIを活用したエンターテインメントと監視技術がなぜ、どのように融合したのかを探り、その関係性及び影響について論じます。

<プログラム>
講演者
Jennifer ROBERTSON(東京大学東京カレッジ 招聘教員、ミシガン大学 名誉教授)

討論者
板津 木綿子(東京大学大学院情報学環 教授、 B’AIグローバルフォーラム ディレクター)

司会
Flavia BALDARI(東京大学東京カレッジ 特任研究員)

Abstract:
CCTV cameras are installed almost everywhere in Tokyo and other Japanese cities, and private security systems, introduced in the 1980s, are now standard in most homes. Surveillance is also embedded in everyday life, work, and play and has become “a way of seeing” and influences “ways of being seen.” In this presentation Prof. Robertson explores how and why AI-enabled entertainment and surveillance technologies have become fused, and speculates on the consequences of their triangulation.

Program:
Lecturer
Jennifer ROBERTSON (Tokyo College Professor, The University of Tokyo Professor Emerita, University of Michigan)

Commentator
ITATSU Yuko (Director, B’AI Global Forum & Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator
Flavia BALDARI (Project Researcher, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

[開催案内] 第2回MeDi-B’AIシンポジウム「メディアとダイバーシティ――メディアに女たちの声は届いたのか?」 [Event Information] MeDi-B’AI Symposium "Media and Diversity - Has Women's Voices Reached the Media?"

2017年5月に結成された「メディア表現とダイバーシティを抜本的に検討する会(MeDi)」は、2020年には東京大学Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forumの下部組織となり、これまで6年間にわたって活動してきました。この度、「メディアとダイバーシティ——メディアに女たちの声は届いたのか?」と題して、この6年間の活動の成果を問い直すためにシンポジウムを開催することになりました。
ご関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

・主催:メディア表現とダイバーシティを抜本的に検討する会(MeDi)
・共催:東京大学 Beyond AI研究推進機構 B’AI Global Forum
・日時:2023年11月25日(土)12:00~15:10(二部制)
・形式:対面のみ
・会場:東京大学本郷キャンパス 情報学環・ダイワユビキタス学術研究館3階
    大和ハウス石橋信夫記念ホール
・言語:日本語
・参加方法:参加には事前申し込みが必要です。下記URLよりお申し込みください。
    https://onl.tw/KPtB1RB
    (定員100人/申込〆切 2023年11月20日(月))
・お問い合わせ:medigender[a]gmail.com([a]を@に変更してください)
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MeDi, formed in May 2017, became a subsidiary organization of the Institute for AI and Beyond, the University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, in 2020. Over the past six years, it has been engaged in various activities. Now, we have decided to hold a symposium titled "Media and Diversity - Has Women's Voices Reached the Media?" to reassess the outcomes of its six years of activities.

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12:00〜12:05  開会挨拶 (林香里 東京大学 理事・副学長)
12:05〜13:15  第1部 「メディアのジェンダーギャップ解消は進んでいるか?」
         浜田敬子(ジャーナリスト) ★モデレーター
         岸田花子(民放労連委員長)
         中谷弥生(株式会社TBSテレビ取締役)
         中村史郎(朝日新聞社代表取締役社長)
         林香里(東京大学理事・副学長)

         報告「国内外メディアの現状と取り組み」
         白河桃子 相模女子大学大学院特任教授)

13:15〜13:40  休憩

13:40〜14:50  第2部 「デジタルメディアにおいていかにジェンダーが問題となるのか?」
         藤田結子(東京大学准教授) ★モデレーター
         李美淑(大妻女子大学准教授)「メディア文化における性差別と性暴力」
         河野真太郎(専修大学教授)「日本におけるポピュラー・ミソジニーの展開」
         板津木綿子(東京大学教授)「AIロボットのジェンダーをめぐるメディア表現」

14:50〜15:05  報告「MeDi活動の振り返りと今後の課題」
         小島慶子(エッセイスト); 治部れんげ(東京工業大学准教授)

15:05〜15:10  閉会挨拶 (田中東子 東京大学教授)