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

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

Special Guest Seminar was held on January 18, 2023 co-organized by Professor Tatsuya Harada's Research Group (Research Theme: Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data) and the Institute for AI and Beyond
Title: Making the Invisible Visible: Towards High-Quality Physics-Guided THz Computational Imaging
Speaker: Lin Chia-Wen/ Professor / National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

A video recording of the lecture on 17 October 2022 by Dr. Lulu Shi hosted by the B'AI Global Forum is now available.

・Lecture title: The Future(s) of Unpaid Work: How Susceptible Do Experts from Different Backgrounds Think the Domestic Sphere is to Automation?
・Speaker: Lulu Shi (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
・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

A lecture by Dr. Aynne Kokas about the battle between the U.S. and China for digital sovereignty, was held on 8 August at the B’AI Global Forum.

・Lecture title: Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
・Speaker: Aynne Kokas (Associate Professor, The University of Virginia, Abe Fellow)

A video recording of the lecture is now available.

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

The AI Basics Seminar for the students and employees of the University of Tokyo, organized collaboratively by the Institute for AI and Beyond, the External Relations Department of UTokyo and SoftBank Corp., was held on September 30th at the Institute for AI and Beyond.

The seminar was part of a series of AI study sessions and external seminars scheduled to be held monthly in the coming months in preparation for the Data Hackerson scheduled to take place in March 2023 under UTokyo Global Internship Program (UGIP).

Lecturer: Shota SUZUKI (SoftBank Corp., AI Strategy Office, Axross Business Section
Language: Japanese

[Links (Japanese)]
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/students/special-activities/ugip.html
https://axross-recipe.com/recipes

The Medical AI Startup Seminar was held at the Institute for AI and Beyond on Thursday, September 15th.
The seminar brings together entrepreneurs who are in the spotlight of cutting-edge AI startups to discuss why they decided to take on the challenge of medical AI startups and what are their future plans. They discussed their visions and knowledge and shared them with the audience.

[Speaker]
Tomohiro TADA, CEO, AI Medical Service Inc. https://www.ai-ms.com/
Yuichi TAMURA, CEO, Cardio Intelligence Inc. https://www.cardio-i.com/
Kazunori HAKAMADA, CTO, LIPIXEL Inc. https://lpixel.net/

[Modelator]
Eiji NAKAGAWA, Deputy Director, Technology Unit, AI Strategic Office, SOFTBANK / Institute for AI and Beyond

The seminar video is now available.
Language of the video: Japanese

https://youtu.be/Vk872K12vOI