The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age

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.

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)

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)

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.

A video recording of the event "How do we live with AI?", celebrating the publication of the book “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power” on July 28th, organized by by the B'AI Global Forum is now available.
The event was held in Japanese.

The contents of the book was introduced through reports by the authors and discussions with commentators, as well as to discuss AI technology critically from multiple perspectives at the event.

About the book （Japanese only)
https://www.utp.or.jp/book/b10026693.html

B’AI Global Forum Official Website
https://baiforum.jp/en/

Special Seminar was held on July 21st, 2023.
Title: Toward Dense 3D Reconstruction in the Wild
Speaker: Jia Deng / Princeton University / Associate Professor

For more details please refer to the webpage of the Professor Tatsuya Harada's laboratory
https://www.mi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/blog/event/visit-of-prof-jia-deng/

Special Seminar was held on July 14th, 2023.
Title: Neural Polytopes
Speaker: Koji Hashimoto / Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University / Professor

The B'AI Global Forum will hold an event to celebrate the publication of the book, "Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power 2023" (Japanese only : AIから読み解く社会——権力化する最新技術), which examines AI technologies from the perspective of various fields including sociology, philosophy, and engineering. The event will be held to introduce the contents of the book through reports by the authors and discussions with commentators, as well as to discuss AI technology critically from multiple perspectives. All those interested are welcome to attend.

“Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power” is a book compiled and published last March by Professor Yuko Itatsu and Associate Professor Ai Hisano of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies.

Professor Itatsu is the research leader of the basic research project “B’AI Global Forum: Research on norms, ethics and praxis for a truly gender equal society and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI age”.

For more details of the event, please refer to the flyer.

The event will be held in Japanese language only.

・Inquiry: B'AI Global Forum Office
　bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com（replace [at] by @）

About the book
https://www.utp.or.jp/book/b10026693.html

B’AI Global Forum Official Website
https://baiforum.jp/en/

This is an invitation for students at the University of Tokyo to participate in the University of Tokyo Global Internship Program (UGIP) 2023 organized by SoftBank Corp., as part of the Beyond AI collaborative initiatives aiming to train the next generation of AI talents who can work globally, by giving them the opportunity to intern at SoftBank Corp. and its affiliated companies.　

Prior to the launch of the new UGIP 2023 educational program this coming winter, students of the University of Tokyo are welcome to participate in a pre-event titled “Idea-thon” on the 7th and 10th of August designed to provide educational opportunities in Japan.
We look forward to receiving your registration.

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2023 Pre-event
“Update your education! ChatGPT utilization idea-thon”
- Come up with service ideas that maximize the performance of ChatGPT and move people's hearts!
■Date & Time：Aug. 7 (Mon.) 13:00~18:00 & Aug. 10 (Thu.) 13:00~18:00
■Venue：SoftBank Takeshiba Office & Online (by Zoom)
■Target：Undergraduate and graduate students (excluding students in doctoral programs) of the University of Tokyo
■Application deadline ：August 2 (Wed.) 23:59 (Japan Standard Time)
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For details of the event, please refer to the following URL (Japanese only):
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/students/special-activities/ugip_sb.html

The UGIP is a program that allows students of the University of Tokyo to experience the front line of business at host companies as an intern. This contributes to the globalization of the University of Tokyo by developing global human resources who can play an active role in the world.

For details about UGIP (Japanese only):
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/students/special-activities/ugip.html

Masami Hagiya, Director of the Institute for AI and Beyond of the University of Tokyo gave a special lecture entitled "Challenge of the Beyond AI Joint Project" at the “7th Japan IT Week in Kansai” on 19 January 2023 in Osaka, Japan.

A video recording of the lecture on 6 December 2022 by Drs. Richard Carter-White and Maartje Roelofsen hosted by the B'AI Global Forum is now available.

・Lecture title: Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR
・Speaker:
Richard Carter-White（Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University）
　Maartje Roelofsen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
・Language: English

B’AI Global Forum was established as part of the medium- and long-term research project “B’AI Global Forum: Research on norms, ethics and praxis for a truly gender equal society and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI age” led by Professor Yuko ITATSU.

B'AI Global Forum: https://baiforum.jp/en/
Project page : https://beyondai.jp/contents/projects/hayashi/?lang=e