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Professor Yuko Itatsu will be speaking at the event organized by the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (11 May 2025)
A related event to the ongoing exhibition “M
Seminar Series “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI” (October 9, 2024 – January 22, 2025) – Recordings Now Available
The B’AI Global Forum co-hosted a seminar series t
A video recording of the B’AI Global Forum 5th Anniversary Symposium “AI and DEI: The Future of Digital Humanitarianism” (November 18, 2024) is now available
A video recording of the B’AI Global Forum 5
Official LinkedIn Page and Instagram Account Launched
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Professor Yuko Itatsu and Associate Professor Arisa Ema to Speak at “Algorithmic Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Global Summit on Open Problems for AI” (April 10 2025)
The global summit, “Algorithmic Innovation &
Professor Yuko Itatsu will be speaking at the EAA symposium organized under the auspices of DAIKIN-UTokyo Lab. (26 March 2025)
Professor Yuko Itatsu, Director of the B’AI Global
Dialogue Series UTokyo–Cambridge Voices “AI and Information Integrity: Uses and Misuses” (28 March 2025)
On Friday, 28 March 2025, the B’AI Global Forum, i
We will hold the 5th BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024 “Human-Robot Interaction from the Perspective of ‘Friendship’” (10 March 2025)
For this research meeting on March 10th, 2025, Aik
We will hold the 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024 “Advancing Mental Health Monitoring: A Deep Learning Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition” (20 February 2025)
For this research meeting on February 20th, 2025,
We will hold a lecture by Jo Healey “Trauma Reporting: Exploring Sensitive Working Practices for Journalists when Interviewing Victims and Survivors” (11 February 2025)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Jo He
We will hold the 13th Women in Tech Lunch (11 December 2024)
On December 11, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will h
We will hold a lecture by Chong-ae LEE “How South Korean Journalists Began Speaking About Trauma” (25 January 2025)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Chong
By A lecture by Steph Wright entitled “Why Trustworthy, Ethical, and Inclusive AI Matters” (21 November, 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Steph
We will hold the 12th Women in Tech Lunch (12 November 2024)
On November 12, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will h
We will hold an interactive workshop by Steph Wright “Ethics Challenge!” (19 November 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold an interactive wor
The Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi) will be holding a symposium titled “How Is the Media Landscape Changing? — AI and the Freelance Act” (16 November 2024)
On November 16th, 2024, the Media and Diversity
By We will hold an event “Towards Building Multicultural and Multilingual Safe Large Language Models” (11 November 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum, in collaboration with
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Anthony Elliott “May AI Be With You: Agency and Automation in the Age of Algorithmic Modernity” (25 November 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Dr. A
The article on “Global AI Dialogue: Interactive workshop on Artificial Intelligence” has been published on the Nikkei Business Publications website
On August 24, 2024, a public engagement event titl
We will hold the B’AI Global Forum 5th Anniversary Symposium “AI and DEI: The Future of Digital Humanitarianism” (November 18, 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum is celebrating its 5th
We will hold the 11th Women in Tech Lunch (16 October 2024)
On October 16, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will ho
Seminar Series “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI” (9 October 2024 – 22 January 2025)
The B’AI Global Forum will co-host a biweekly semi
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Kathleen Mae Cumiskey “From the Presence of Absent Others to the Absence of Presence: The impact of emerging technologies on identity and relationships” (8 October 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Dr. K
We will hold the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024 “Global AI Dialogues: Exploring public perceptions on genAI across Japan, Nigeria, and Germany” (8 October 2024)
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We will hold The 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024 “Development of Biomimetic Robots and Constitutive Understanding of Humans: Approaching Human Through Robotics” (6 August 2024)
For this research meeting on August 6, 2024, Akihi
We will hold the 10th Women in Tech Lunch online (16 July 2024)
On July 16, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
We will hold the 9th Women in Tech Lunch (19 June 2024)
On June 19, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
We will hold an interactive lecture by Dr. Paolo Granata “Playing with Marshall McLuhan’s “Laws of Media”” (7 June 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold an interactive lec
B’AI Women in Tech @ SoftBank –Headquarters Tour & Networking Event (June 3, 2024)
On Monday, June 3, 2024, B’AI Global Forum w
We will hold The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024 “Challenges Facing Racial and Cultural Minorities in Japan and Creating Opportunities for Intercultural Dialogue” (28 May 2024)
For this research meeting on May 28, 2024, Naomi I
We will hold the 8th Women in Tech Lunch (14 May 2024)
On May 14, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will hold t
B’AI Global Forum × CulturIA collaborative workshop: Cultural Imaginaries of AI: From technology to art (13 May 2024)
B’AI Global Forum is excited to announce an
We will hold the 7th Women in Tech Lunch (17 April 2024)
On April 17, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
A video recording of the 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” (19/3/2024) is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a talk by Dr. Ji
A video recording of the “B’AI-UTokyo NY Event: The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age” (December 14-15, 2023) is now available
A video recording of the “B’AI-UTokyo NY Ev
We will hold the 6th Women in Tech Lunch (27 March 2024)
On March 27, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
A video recording of the lecture by Dr. Andrew Lapworth “Rethinking trust in AI: Imaginaries, Habits, Ecologies” (18/1/2024) is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a talk by Dr. An
A video recording of B’AI Global Forum Lecture “Language Education in the AI Era” (15/1/2024) is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture entitl
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Cait McMahon “Covering Trauma: Building Mental Fitness for Journalists” (13 February 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a talk by D
The article on the B’AI-UTokyo New York Event has been published on the Times Higher Education website
On December 14-15, 2023 (EST), the B’AI-UTo
The report on the B’AI-UTokyo New York Event, “The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age,” has been published on the University of Tokyo New York Office website
On December 14-15, 2023 (EST), the B’AI-UTo
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Karen Shimakawa “Bodies, Affects, and Algorithms: AI and the Challenge of Live Performance” (10 January 2024)
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a talk by Dr. Kare
Professor Yuko Itatsu will be speaking at the Japan AI Alignment Symposium 2024 (20 January 2024)
Professor Yuko Itatsu, Director of the B’AI Global
We will host a lecture titled “Language Education in the AI Era” (15 January 2024)
On Monday, January 15, 2024, B’AI Global For
We will hold the 5th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Rethinking trust in AI: Imaginaries, Habits, Ecologies” (18 January 2024)
For this research meeting on January 18, 2024, Dr.
The Graduate Student Members of B’AI Global Forum have launched the “Perceptions” website!
The Graduate Student Members of B’AI Global Forum
Associate Professor Ai Hisano will be speaking at the 4th Ecotic Workshop titled “Sensational Futures: Senses, Robots and AI” (11 January 2024)
Associate Professor Ai Hisano of the B’AI Global F
Professor Yuko Itatsu and Associate Professor Rie Yamaguchi will participate in the Social ICT Research Center Symposium titled “ICT Shaping the Future of Society” (21 December 2023)
On Thursday, December 21, 2023, the Symposium R
We will hold the 5th Women in Tech Lunch (21 December 2023)
On December 21, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum will h
We will host the “B’AI-UTokyo NY Event: The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age” (14-15 December 2023 (EST) )
On December 14-15, 2023 (EST), the B’AI Global For
We will hold the 4th Women in Tech Lunch (21 November 2023)
On November 21, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum will h
We will hold a lecture by Professor Jennifer Robertson entitled “‘SECURITAINMENT’: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance” (27 November 2023)
On Monday, November 27th, 2023, The B’AI Global Fo
The Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi) will be holding a symposium titled “Media and Diversity: Have Women’s Voices Reached the Media?” (25 November 2023)
On November 25th, 2023, the Media and Diversity
We will hold the 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “A Shift of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Postmodern Military” (22 November 2023)
For this research meeting on November 22, 2023, Re
Prof. Yuko Itatsu will be speaking at Data Summit 2023 (2-3 November 2023)
Professor Yuko Itatsu will be speaking at D
Professor Kaori Hayashi will participate as a panelist in the FY2023 1st International FPCJ Webinar, titled “The Role of Media and Reader Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: Thinking on the Future of Reporting with Foreign Media Correspondents” (30 October 2023)
On October 30, 2023, Professor Kaori Hayash
Alyssa Castillo YAP and Will Guzman will be presenting at the Tokyo-Oulu Joint Symposium on Human-AI Interaction (TOHAI) (24-25 October 2023)
On October 24-25, 2023, Alyssa Castillo YAP
We will hold the 3rd Women in Tech Lunch (26 October 2023)
On October 26, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum will ho
Prof. Yuko Itatsu participated in the Fall national conference for the Japan Society for Educational Technology as a keynote speaker and panelist (16 September 2023)
Prof. Yuko Itatsu gave a keynote speech on
UPDATE〈Exhibition〉PERCEPTIONS: Reconstructing AI Narratives
Typhoon-Related Closure at 3 PM (Sept. 8th)
Due to the approaching typhoon, we have decided to
An exhibition by the B’AI Global Forum Graduate Student Members titled “PERCEPTIONS: Reconstructing AI Narratives” will be held (8-10 September 2023)
On September 8-10, 2023, an exhibition
A video recording of the book launch event for “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power” (2023) is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held an event to comm
We invite applications for one position as “Project Assistant Professor” or “Project Researcher” for the B’AI Global Forum
We invite applications for one position as “Projec
We will hold the 2nd Women in Tech Lunch (27 July 2023)
On July 27, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
Prof. Yuko Itatsu delivered a keynote speech at the joint symposium on new technology and learning (24 June 2023)
Prof. Yuko Itatsu delivered a keynote speech ent
Prof. Yuko Itatsu participated in the Women in AI APAC Summit as a panelist (14 June 2023)
Prof. Yuko Itatsu participated in the panel disc
We will hold the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Understanding and Generating Humor by Computers: Toward Smooth Communication between Human and AI” (31 July 2023)
For this research meeting on July 31, 2023, Kohtar
We will hold the 1st Women in Tech Lunch (22 June 2023)
On June 22, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum will hold
The Annual Report 2022 of the B’AI Global Forum has been published
The Annual Report 2022 of the B’AI Global Forum ha
We will hold the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Information Design to Reduce Cognitive Bias: Visualization of User Generated Opinions” (22 June 2023)
For this research meeting on June 22, 2023, Dr. Ma
Prof. Yuko Itatsu appeared on NHK’s “Sunday Debate” discussing the topic of “Expanding Artificial Intelligence: How Should We Interact with It?” (16 April 2023)
Professor Yuko Itatsu appeared on NHK’s “Sunday De
We have published our first book “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power”
B’AI Global Forum has published its first bo
We will hold the 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Experimenting with Speculative Interfaces: A Design-Based Approach to the Study of Algorithmic Practices” (21 April 2023)
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“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi)” will hold the second event to celebrate the publication of the book “Iine! botan o osu mae ni: jendā kara miru netto kūkan to media (Before Clicking the Like Button: Internet Space and Media from the Gender Perspective)” (30 March 2023)
“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi),” a sub-project
Dr. Atsuko Sano of the B’AI Global Forum will participate in the Side Event of the Commission on the Status of Women (8 March 2023 JST/7 March 2023 EST)
Dr. Atsuko Sano, project researcher of the B’AI Gl
“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi)” will hold the first event to celebrate the publication of the book “Iine! botan o osu mae ni: jendā kara miru netto kūkan to media (Before Clicking the Like Button: Internet Space and Media from the Gender Perspective)” (1 March 2023)
“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi),” a sub-project
We will hold the 10th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “Talking about SF prototyping or not” (3 March 2023)
The B’AI Global Forum is pleased to invite you to
Prof. Yuko Itatsu will participate in the 3rd International Symposium of the Institute for AI and Beyond (17 February 2023)
Prof. Yuko Itatsu will participate in the panel di
“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi)” has published its second book!
“Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi)” has published i
We will hold the 9th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “Co-creation of Agency: Towards Ethical Design for Social Robots” (3 February 2023)
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A video recording of the lecture by Drs. Richard Carter-White and Maartje Roelofsen “Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR” is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Drs. Richa
A video recording of the lecture by Dr. Lulu Shi “The Future(s) of Unpaid Work: How Susceptible Do Experts from Different Backgrounds Think the Domestic Sphere Is to Automation?” is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr. Lulu S
We will hold the 8th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “Digital Humanities and AI: Particularity, Commonality and Bias” (16 December 2022)
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A graduate Student member, Hanako Lowry’s AI artwork will be exhibited at Emulsion, an art exhibit.
Hanako Lowry’s AI artwork “ema NEW FAC
A video recording of the lecture by Dr. Justin Gest “Majority Minority: How Do Societies Respond to Demographic Change?” is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr.
We will hold the 7th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022“Possibilities and Challenges of Metaverse – Metaverse School of Engineering” (16 November 2022)
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We will hold a lecture “Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR”
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Drs.
Graduate Student Member, Hanako Lowry, has written the introduction to Sputniko!’s new work
Graduate Student Member of B’AI Global Forum, Hana
Profs. Kaori Hayashi and Yuko Itatsu will participate in the panel discussion in the Northwestern Univ. on October 28
On October 28, the Northwestern Roberta Buffett In
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The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr.
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A report and video recording of the 10th AI Center Symposium, in which Professor Yuko Itatsu of the B’AI Global Forum participated as a speaker, are now available
On July 27, 2022, Professor Yuko Itatsu of
Prof. Yuko Itatsu of the B’AI Global Forum will present in the AY2022 Research Results Presentation organized by the Institute for AI and Beyond (13 October 2022)
On October 13, 2022, the Institute for AI a
Prof. Yuko Itatsu of the B’AI Global Forum presented a talk at the Digital Media Research Center at the Queensland University of Technology
On September 20, 2022, Yuko Itatsu, who is
Dr. Atsuko Sano of the B’AI Global Forum will participate as a lecturer at the study group series for CSW67 on September 20, 2022
The priority theme of CSW67 (the sixty-seve
The B’AI Global Forum and ITASIA Program at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo will hold a talk by Dr. Justin Gest entitled “Majority Minority: How Do Societies Respond to Demographic Change?” (28 September 2022)
The B’AI Global Forum and ITASIA Program at
We invite applications for one position as “Project Assistant Professor” for the B’AI Global Forum
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A video recording of the 5th Installment of Talk Series on “Inequity, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure” is now available
The B’AI Global Forum held a talk by Ayukaw
An interview with Professor Yuko Itatsu of the B’AI Global Forum was published in the electronic edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun
An article titled “Innovations through Gend
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Aynne Kokas “Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty”
The B’AI Global Forum is pleased to invite
We will hold a talk “Against the ‘New Exploitation’ Caused by Technology: Issues on Virtual YouTuber and the ‘Objectification of the Body’”
The B’AI Global Forum will hold a talk by A
Professor Yuko Itatsu of the B’AI Global Forum gave a keynote speech at the inaugural event of “Osaka Seidanren”
Yuko Itatsu, Professor in the Interfaculty
We will hold the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “The Application of Social Science Research for Business”
The B’AI Global Forum is pleased to invite
A report on the Trauma Reporting Study Group for 2021 has been published
A report on the Trauma Reporting Study Grou
“High Teen Conference” Report featuring Prof. Yuko Itatsu of B’AI Global Forum is now on the Nakano-Ku’s website
The “High Teen Conference,” in
We will hold the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “International Politics and AI: From Cybersecurity to Killer Robots”
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Ms. Nozomi Ohtsuki, Research Assistant of the B’AI Global Forum, wins the Encouragement Award from the Humanities and Computing Division of IPSJ!
Ms. Nozomi Ohtsuki, who is a PhD student of
An Interview with Associate Professor Ai Hisano of the B’AI Global Forum is featured on the website of the University of Tokyo III/GSII
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Stud
We will hold the 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “How far Can VR Make People Empathize?: Its Limitations and How to Use It”
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We will hold the 8th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 “Thinking about the Potential and Challenges of Data Journalism from the Perspective of the Frontline”
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B’AI Global Forum was featured in the 2022 annual report of the University of Tokyo III/GSII
B’AI Global Forum was featured in the 2022
We will hold the 7th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 “Considering the Ethics of AI Characters: Looking at the Case of ‘AI Rinna’”
The B’AI Global Forum is pleased to invite
Professor Yuko Itatsu, Associate Director of the B’AI Global Forum, wins the best paper award!
Yuko Itatsu, Professor in the Interfaculty
We will hold the 6th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 “Science and the Internet”
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Our office “BAIROOM” is now ready!
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The essay collection “Artificial Intelligence and Society” has been published
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A report on the lecture by Phebe Vayanos has been published
The report on the lecture by Phebe Vayanos
We will hold the 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021
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A report on the lecture by Ivana Bartoletti has been published
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A report on the lecture by Dr. Ana Beduschi has been published
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We will hold a lecture by Dr. Phebe Vayanos “Towards Robust, Interpretable, and Fair Social and Public Health Interventions”
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We will hold a lecture by Ivana Bartoletti “Power, Politics, & AI: Building a Better Future”
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We will hold a lecture by Dr. Ana Beduschi “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies at the Border”
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A video recording of the online seminar “AI and Society: New Media Literacy and Politics” is available now
The online seminar “AI and Society: New Med
We will hold the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 “Crowdsourcing GIS and Diversity”
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B’AI Global Forum was featured in the 2021 annual report of the University of Tokyo III/GSII
B’AI Global Forum was featured in the 2021 annual
A video recording of the lecture by Dr. Ai Hisano is on YouTube
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Online Seminar “AI and Society: New Media Literacy and Politics”
Dr. Hayashi and Dr. Mizukoshi, the members of B
We will hold the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 “Ethical Issues in the Use of AI”
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A video recording with Japanese subtitles from the
We will hold a lecture by Dr. Ai Hisano, “Taste and Vision in History: The Transformation of “Aesthetics” and the Rise of Consumer Society”
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