Report on the 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025
“Working with AI or AI-assisted? An experience of Frame analysis”
2026.Feb.10
On December 4, 2025, the fourth BAIRAL research meeting for FY2025 was held in a hybrid format. Dr. Hui-Wen Liu (Professor, Department of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan) gave a presentation titled “Working with AI or AI-assisted? An experience of Frame analysis.”
Report on seminar series “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI 2nd Edition”
2026.Feb.10
The seminar series "Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI 2nd Edition" was held over ten sessions from October 2025 to January 2026, as a collaborative initiative jointly organised by the B'AI Global Forum at the University of Tokyo, the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn, and the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
Report on the 5th BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025
“How We Judge Ations Toward Robots: Testing the Ethical Asymmetry Hypothesis”
2026.Jan.26
On January 8, 2026, the fifth BAIRAL research meeting for FY2025 was held online. Minyi Wang (PhD student, Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Canterbury) gave a presentation titled “How we judge actions toward robots: testing the ethical asymmetry hypothesis.”
B’AI Book Club Activity Updates for Fiscal Year 2025
2025.Sep.25
B’AI Global Forum hosts a book club where members read and discuss international works that critically examine AI, algorithms, and related information technologies.
Report on the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025
“Reconsidering the Origin of AI in ‘Ethics by Design’”
2025.Sep.16
On September 2, 2025, the third BAIRAL research meeting for FY2025 was held online. Dr. H. Titilola OLOJEDE (Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the National Open University of Nigeria) gave a presentation titled "Reconsidering the Origin of AI in ‘Ethics by Design’."
Report on the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025
“AI Society Seen through Childhood Studies”
2025.Aug.15
On July 30, 2025, the second BAIRAL research meeting for FY2025 was held online. Dr. Xiao ZHOU (Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba) gave a presentation titled “AI Society Seen through Childhood Studies.”
Report on the 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025
“Watching and Being Watched: When Environmental Design Meets Crime Prevention”
2025.Jul.31
On June 11, 2025, the first BAIRAL research meeting for FY2025 was held online. Dr. Sihan YANG (Project Researcher, Collaborative Community Design Lab, University of Tokyo) gave a presentation titled “Watching and Being Watched: When Environmental Design Meets Crime Prevention.”
Report on the 36th B’AI Book Club
Anita Say Chan (2025) Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
2025.Jul.31
The 36th session of B’AI Book Club was held on March 25, 2025. Dr. Ai Hisano (Associate Professor, UTokyo) reviewed Anita Say Chan (2025) Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (University of California Press).
Report on CulturIA & B’AI Symposium 2025 “AI and Art”
2025.Jun.24
The CulturIA & B’AI symposium “AI and Art” was held on June 18–19, 2025, at the Ito International Research Center, the University of Tokyo.