2024.Sep.17

EVENTS

The 3nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2024
“Global AI Dialogues: Exploring public perceptions on genAI across Japan, Nigeria, and Germany”

◇BAIRAL（B’AI RA League）

BAIRAL is a study group by young research assistants (RA) of the B’AI Global Forum of the Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo. Aiming to achieve gender equality and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI era, this study group examines relationships between digital information technology and society. BAIRAL organizes research meetings every other month with guest speakers in a variety of fields.

 

◇Date & Venue

・Date: Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024, 16:00-17:30 (JST)
・Language: English
・Venue: On-site (up to 25 participants) & Online Hybrid
▶︎ On-site: Room 327, Faculty of Science Bldg.3 (The University of Tokyo, Asano Campus)
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400020145.pdf

How to register： For on-site participation, please register below by 4th October (Fri)
https://forms.gle/y4vgD7NXKzoNW6LL7

▶︎Online: Zoom Meeting (No registration required)
https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/82011631638?pwd=bR8JFx5phVoia4IEkVQfze28bV84H7.1
Meeting ID: 820 1163 1638/Passcode: 241008

◇Guest Speakers

Chiara Ullstein (Research Associate and PhD Candidate in Informatics at the Chair of Cyber Trust at Technical University of Munich (with Jens Grossklags), and Visiting Researcher at The University of Tokyo (with Hiromi Yokoyama))

Michel Hohendanner (Research Associate at Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI (MUCDAI), PhD Candidate in Informatics at the Chair of Cyber Trust at Technical University of Munich (with Jens Grossklags) and Visiting Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies)

◇Abstract

Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are developed by a few leading companies in the tech sector and rapidly released to secure market positions. Policy and policy discourses do not only struggle to keep up with the pace of rollouts but take place at an expert level. Little space is given to laypeople – who must adapt to and adopt the genAI innovations – to share their opinions and experiences. Addressing this gap, we share insights on our experiences of organizing laypeople dialogues in Nigeria, Japan, and Germany. During the dialogues, participants discussed what a desirable future in light of genAI development could look like. Participants explored the consequences of technology deployment, assessed the risks, mapped stakeholders, and derived measures to achieve a desirable goal. We contribute to policy debates on generative AI by providing recommendations derived from participants’ identified requirements for generative AI to create value, as well as their suggested measures to ensure that generative AI makes social goods accessible. In our talk, we reflect on the processes and the results.

 

◇Organizer

B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo

◇Inquiry

Priya Mu (Research assistant of the B’AI Global Forum)
priya-mu[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)