CFIEC Webinar "The Role and Challenges of Hiroshima AI Processes in the Future Digital Society"

Date and Time: January 31, 2024 (Wednesday) 14:00-15:30
Organized by: Center for International Economic Collaboration (CFIEC)
Lecturer: Arisa Ema, Associate Professor, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo (moderator)
　　　      Hiroki Habuka, Project Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University
　　　      Yoichi Iida, Special Negotiator for Information and Communications International Strategy, International Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Format: Online seminar (YouTube Live)
Capacity: 200 people
Admission: Free

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At the G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Meeting held in Gunma, Japan, in April 2023, "Promoting Responsible AI and AI Governance" was one of the agenda items, and the promotion of a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence was discussed.

Following a ministerial-level meeting in September and an informal meeting held in conjunction with IGF2023 in Kyoto in October, a broad consensus was reached on 11 international guidelines for AI developers at the end of October. In December, guidelines for providers and users of AI-based services were finalized at the ministerial level and finally agreed upon at the summit meeting.

In this webinar, Mr. Iida of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will outline the process and objectives of launching the Hiroshima AI process as the chairing country and leading its formulation as the world's first comprehensive international rules on generative AI. In addition, Mr. Arisa Ema and Mr. Hiroki Habuka, who have participated in various discussions at home and abroad, will introduce the contents of the final agreement announced after the summit meeting and the various issues involved in it.

The panel will discuss the role and challenges of this Hiroshima AI Process as a comprehensive international framework for the appropriate, human-centered use of rapidly developing generative AI in an increasingly complex future digital society, as well as the Council of Europe, the United Nations, and the UK AI Safety Summit, Other international collaboration movements will also be discussed.

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1. 14:00 - 14:05 (5 min.) Program description, self-introduction of speakers (Secretariat)
2. 14:05 - 14:25 (20 minutes) Mr. Iida gave an overview of the Hiroshima AI process
3. 14:25 - 15:30 (65 min) Discussion, Q&A
4. 15:30 Closing

<Instructor Biography
Arisa Ema
Associate Professor, Tokyo College, Institute for International Advanced Studies, The University of Tokyo
Since January 2017, he has been a visiting researcher at the RIKEN Center for Integrated Research on Innovative Intelligence. He specializes in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). His research focuses on the relationship between information technology and society, including artificial intelligence and robotics. His main publications are "How to Walk in AI Society: How to Deal with Artificial Intelligence" (Kagaku Doujin, 2019) and "AI and Society through Pictures and Diagrams" (Gijutsu Hyoron-sha, 2021).

Hiroki Habuka
Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Representative Director and CEO, Smart Governance Corporation; Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Attorney at Law (Japan and New York)
His research and practice focuses on the design of governance in the digital age, integrating legal regulations, corporate governance, market mechanisms, and democratic systems. While at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), he was the lead author of the "Government Innovation" report (Ver. 1 (2020) and Ver. 2 (2021)) and the "Overview and State of Agile Governance" report (2022) published by the Ministry. He was named by Apolitical as one of the 50 most influential people in the world transforming the public sector. He holds a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo, a JD from the University of Tokyo Law School, and an LLM from Stanford Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of "Introduction to AI Governance: From Risk Management to Social Design" (December 2023, Hayakawa Shinsho).

Yoichi Iida
Special Negotiator for International Information and Communications Strategy, International Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
When Japan assumed the G7 Presidency in 2016, it chaired the G7 Working Group on ICT Policy. In this working group, Japan proposed initiating an international discussion on AI principles, which was endorsed by G7 ICT ministers and passed on to the G7 Presidency of Italy and Canada. Iida also chaired the G20 Digital Economy Task Force (DETF), which discussed the G20 AI Principles endorsed by the Leaders at the 2019 Osaka Summit; since January 2020, Iida has chaired the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), where he has been involved in AI governance and other broad aspects of the digital economy, including digital policy; in 2023, he again chaired the G7 Digital Technology WG to discuss global AI governance, which led to the launch of the Hiroshima AI Process at the Hiroshima Summit. He is the Chair of the Hiroshima AI Process WG and the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Partnership for AI (GPAI). 1988 Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics in March 1988, he joined the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1988, which was merged into the current Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2000. 1990 July After serving as the Director, North America Section, International Planning Division, Telecommunications Policy Bureau, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications 1991 From September 1998 to 2001, he served as First Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Germany.

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