B’AI Book Club Activity Updates for Fiscal Year 2025

B’AI Book Club is a book review project in which members of B’AI Global Forum read foreign literature that examines information technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms from a critical perspective.

It is held approximately once a month, in a format where B’AI members take turns serving as presenters. Each session begins with a presentation on the selected book, followed by a discussion with all participants.

For Fiscal Year 2025, the following works are being read and discussed (updates provided as needed):

Blackwell, A. F. (2024). Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. The MIT Press.
Reviewer: Sunjin Oh, Project Assistant Professor, B’AI Global Forum

Birch, J. (2024). The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press.
Reviewer: Honoka Kato, Project Researcher, B’AI Global Forum

Messeri, L. (2024). In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. Duke University Press.
Reviewer: Ai Hisano, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo; Director, B’AI Global Forum