Report on the 2nd GENEE symposium
“Social Challenges Brought by Generative AI: Data Bias, Fake News, and Shaken Legal Systems”
2023.Aug.07
On August 3, 2023, a symposium, "Social Challenges Brought by Generative AI: Data Bias, Fake News, and Disordered Legal Systems," organized by the GENerative AI and Educational Environment Research Project (GENEE), Collaborative Research Organization of Educational Technology at the University of Tokyo, and co-hosted by the B'AI Global Forum, was held. Prof. Kaori Hayashi gave the opening remarks, Prof. Tohko Tanaka presented a lecture, and Prof. Yuko Itatsu moderated a panel discussion.
Report on Women in AI APAC 2023 Summit “AI for Good”
2023.Aug.01
B’AI Global Forum’s Director, Professor Yuko Itatsu, participated in Women in AI APAC summit held in Sydney, Australia on 14 and 15 June 2023.
Report on the 20th B’AI Book Club
Mark Shepard (2022) There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life.
2023.Jul.25
The 20th meeting of the B’AI Book Club was held on June 27, 2023. Project Researcher Kayoung Kim reviewed There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life (2022) by Mark Shepard.
Report on the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Information Design to reduce Cognitive Bias: Visualization of User Generated Opinions”
2023.Jul.11
On June 22, 2023, the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023, organized by the Research Assistants of the B'AI Global Forum, was held online. Makiko Harada (RPD, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Project Researcher, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo) was invited to speak on the topic “Information Design to reduce Cognitive Bias: Visualization of User Generated Opinions.”
Report on the 19th B’AI Book Club
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)
2023.Jun.27
The 19th meeting of the B’AI Book Club was held on May 23, 2023. Professor Itatsu Yuko of the B’AI Global Forum reviewed Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019) by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora.
Report on Lecture by Drs. Richard Carter-White and Maartje Roelofsen “Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR”
2023.Jun.26
On December 6, 2022, the B'AI Global Forum hosted a lecture titled "Embodiment, Deferral, and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR," featuring Dr. Richard Carter-White, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, and Dr. Maartje Roelofsen, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
Report on the 6th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 “Who is Ema?: Examining Representations of Race and Gender through Virtual Bodies Generated by AI”
2023.Jun.26
On October 18, 2022, the 6th BAIRAL research meeting for 2022 was held online. Hanako Lowry, a graduate student in the Master's Program of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo and a B'AI Global Forum graduate student member, gave a presentation on the theme “Who is Ema?: Examining Representations of Race and Gender through Virtual Bodies Generated by AI.”
Report on Workshop by Dr. Arnaud Claes “Algorithmic Personas: Effects of the Anthropomophization of Automated Media on User Reflexivity”
2023.Jun.12
On May 23, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum welcomed Dr. Arnaud Claes (JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at Kansai University; Visiting Researcher of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo) to give an in-person workshop on “Algorithmic Personas: Effects of the Anthropomophization of Automated Media on User Reflexivity.”
Report on the 1th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Experimenting with Speculative Interfaces: A Design-Based Approach to the Study of Algorithmic Practices”
2023.Jun.05
On April 21, 2023, the first BAIRAL research meeting for 2023 was held online. Arnaud Claes (JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Kansai University; Visiting Researcher of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo) gave a presentation on the theme “Experimenting with Speculative Interfaces: A Design-Based Approach to the Study of Algorithmic Practices.”