AI Safety: how do you control what’s smarter than you?
⚠️ An entry pass is required. You will receive your pass upon check-in at the 4th-floor reception.
Agenda
• 19:00 - 20:30 - panel discussion 🎤
• 20:30 - 21:00 - networking & afterparty 🍺
Pizza and drinks provided 🍕🍹
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Artificial Intelligence is advancing at a breakneck speed, with massive investments driving ever-larger models and powerful hardware. Yet implementation of safety standards and governance frameworks lags far behind the technology’s growth.
To shed light on these issues, this panel brings together expert voices from industry, policy, and research to ask a crucial question:
Can we build AI that truly serves humanity, or are we creating something no one can control?
Our panel will share their perspectives on the current situation and what they think safe AI development should look like. Expect an accessible, straightforward conversation on today’s most realistic risks, what ‘safety’ means in practice (testing, evaluation standards, etc.), and the near-term steps Japan and the world can take.
Speakers:
Hiromu Kitamura
Hiromu (Kit) Kitamura is the Principal Expert at Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI) | Digital Engineering Department, Digital Infrastructure Center, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) and visiting researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo and at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Kenny Song
Kenny is the Co-Founder and CTO of Citadel AI. He holds a degree in mathematics and computer science from New York University Shanghai. Previously, he worked at Google Brain as a product manager for machine learning infrastructure, including TensorFlow and AutoML. Kenny was also a research scholar at The University of Tokyo for adversarial machine learning.
Hiroaki Hamada
Research Team Leader at Araya. He obtained a Ph.D. at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). Since 2022, Principal Investigator for Moonshot R&D Program (Goal 9) “Realizing a Society Where People Can Live Positively Even in Adversity” (Yamada PM Group), engaged in modeling positive states with AIs. His research focuses on understanding internal models of digital twin with generative AI for AI safety.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Trouni Tiet, CEO of Kesseo and Development Team Lead at DataLabs.