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