In the fifth ALIGN webinar, we invited Fumiko Kudo, Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Osaka University.
After earning a professional law degree at the graduate school of Sophia University, she worked at private consulting firms and think tanks, combining research with policy proposals. Her field is information law. At the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan, she organized international meetings on data and AI governance, and she is one of the key figures in Japan’s international rule-making in the digital field.
Drawing on her perspective on AI from law and international rule-making, she spoke about recent developments in AI governance and gave her views on recent discourse about catastrophic and long-term AI risks and their outlook, followed by a discussion with the audience. The webinar was held in Japanese on Zoom.