SOCIAL IMPACT OF

ROBOTS:ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HUMAN

FIRST INNOVATION

TOSHIE TAKAHASHI

PROFESSOR, THE SCHOOL OF CULTURE, MEDIA AND SOCIETY, WASEDA UNIVERSITY

THE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES 2020

@ BELGIAN ROYAL ACADEMY,

OCT 8, 2018

“THE COMPLEXITY MODEL OF COMMUNICATION” (2016)

“Audience Studies”

(NY: Routledge, 2009)

Power from macro-level

• Revolution of

Communication

Technology

Power from micro-level

Agency; empowerment

People’s engagement with AI/robots

The Complexity Model of Communication

MACRO-LEVEL: POWER FROM REVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGYSMART JAPAN ICT STRATEGY

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

• Mission

To be the most active country in the world

• Action

Realizing the world’s most advanced ICT environment for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF “GLOBAL AI NARRATIVES” WITH

UNIV. OF CAMBRIDGESEPT 12, 2018 @WASEDA UNIV.

GLOBAL AI NARRATIVE PROJECT WITH UNIV. OF

CAMBRIDGE

MEDIA IMAGE OF ROBOTS: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN

JAPAN AND US

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP ACTION & BATTLE

YOUNG PEOPLE AND AI

PROJECT: AI IMAGES

Survey: 354 young people (age between 15-29)

FIELDWORK ON THERAPEUTIC

ROBOT: PARO

BEFORE AFTER

FIELDWORK ON PARO

FIELDWORK ON AIBO IN TOKYO

INTERNET OF ROBOTS AND AI

aibo TV CM

TOWARDS

THE SUPER-

AGING

SOCIETY

EPILOGUE

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF “AI FOR SOCIAL GOOD” WITH

HARVARD UNIV.MAR 6-7, 2017 @WASEDA UNIV.

HUMAN FIRST INNOVATION

“AI for Social Good”

• AI is a tool for the aim that human beings want to

achieve.

• What robots can do to make our society sustainable and create a new society for human beings?

From AI First to Human First

THANK YOU!

Toshie Takahashi

Professor

School of Culture, Media and

Society

Waseda University

toshie.takahashi@waseda.jp

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/toshie

takahashi/