{"id":3783,"date":"2025-09-25T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:59:52","slug":"re140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re140\/","title":{"rendered":"B&#8217;AI Book Club Activity Updates for Fiscal Year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/projects\/bookclub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B\u2019AI Book Club<\/a> is a book review project in which members of B\u2019AI Global Forum read foreign literature that examines information technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms from a critical perspective.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"43\" data-end=\"274\">It is held approximately once a month, in a format where B\u2019AI members take turns serving as presenters. Each session begins with a presentation on the selected book, followed by a discussion with all participants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"378\">The following books have been read and discussed for Fiscal Year 2025:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"540\">Blackwell, A. F. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/books\/oa-monograph\/5814\/Moral-CodesDesigning-Alternatives-to-AI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"450\">Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI<\/em><\/a>. The MIT Press.<br data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"469\" \/>Reviewer: Sunjin Oh, Project Assistant Professor, B\u2019AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"732\">Birch, J. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/57949?login=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"639\">The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI<\/em><\/a>. Oxford University Press.<br data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"668\" \/>Reviewer: Honoka Kato, Project Researcher, B\u2019AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"736\" data-end=\"998\">Messeri, L. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/in-the-land-of-the-unreal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"827\">In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles<\/em><\/a>. Duke University Press.<br data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"854\" \/>Reviewer: Ai Hisano, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo; Director, B\u2019AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"425\">Hao, K. (2025).\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/743569\/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/743569\/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI.\u00a0<\/a><\/i>\u00a0Penguin Press.<br \/>\nReviewer: Yuko Itatsu, Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>Dean, J. (2025).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/3144-capital-s-grave?srsltid=AfmBOopJ5NMvRcak5T8AJowhFiNoMVth5xDuAKkW9-bYA8Kf56m68oJm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Capital\u2019s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle<\/em><\/a>.<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u00a0<\/i>Verso Books.<br \/>\nReviewer: Minjoo Lee, Project Assistant Professor, B\u2019AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p>Mollick, E. (2024). <i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/741805\/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/741805\/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI.<\/a><\/i> Portfolio\/Penguin.<br \/>\nReviewer: Hayden Hubbard, Graduate Student Member, B&#8217;AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p>Haapio-Kirk, L. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/uclpress.co.uk\/book\/ageing-with-smartphones-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a visual digital age<\/em><\/a>. UCL Press.<br \/>\nReviewer: Priya Mu, Research Assistant, B&#8217;AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p data-field=\"author_unique\">Chavalarias, D. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/editions.flammarion.com\/toxic-data\/9782080274946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Toxic Data:\u00a0Comment les r\u00e9seaux manipulent nos opinions. <\/em><\/a>Flammarion.<br \/>\nReviewer: Ama\u00ebl Cognacq, Research Assistant, B&#8217;AI Global Forum<\/p>\n<p data-field=\"author_unique\">Elliott, A. (2024).<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetail?book_slug=algorithms-of-anxiety-fear-in-the-digital-age--9781509555420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age. <\/a><\/i>Polity.<br \/>\nReviewer: Yunfan Mao, Research Assistant, B&#8217;AI Global Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u2019AI Book Club is a book review project in which m<\/p>\n<div class=\"continue-reading-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re140\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue Reading<i class=\"ion-ios-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,106,22],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-ai","tag-bai-book-club","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}