Japanese AI Researchers Discuss 'The Future of AI and Humanity': Defide Inc. Launches AI Interview Magazine 'AI Future Talks', Creating a Forum for Leading Researchers and Business Leaders to Converse

Defide Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Tetsuya Yamamoto), an AI/DX consulting company, has launched "AI Future Talks," an interview series with leading Japanese AI researchers, on its official website. As generative AI rapidly spreads, the company aims to disseminate the current state and future of AI through dialogues with frontline researchers, enabling executives and business professionals to correctly understand "the essence of AI" and leverage it for their own strategies.

### ■ Background and Purpose

"We must utilize AI because it's a boom"—such a superficial understanding alone will not bring about fundamental business transformation. Defide Inc., while supporting the social implementation of generative AI and AI agents, has faced the challenge that many executives and HR personnel lack opportunities to systematically understand "the true potential and limitations of AI."

"AI Future Talks" was launched to solve this challenge. It aims to deliver researchers' knowledge widely to society, not just limited to AI utilization support, but as an initiative to promote "transformation into a thinking organization."

### ■ Featured Discussions in AI Future Talks (Partial List)

**[Vol. 1] Professor Satoshi Kurihara, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University / President, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence**
**"Can Japan, which avoids challenges, pioneer the future of AI?"**
As a top runner in the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Professor Kurihara offers proposals to Japanese executives on conditions for success in an AI society, the ideal form of industry-academia collaboration, and the potential of Japan's "Galapagos strengths." Known for his books "AI Cannot Do This" and "AI Weapons and Future Society," Professor Kurihara discusses the essence of AI and avenues for Japanese companies.

**[Vol. 2] Professor Hitoshi Iba, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo**
**"Utilizing AI to calculate evolution"**
Professor Iba approaches the essence of AI from the perspective of evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence. He explains how his research approach of "incorporating biological evolution mechanisms into AI" connects with business innovation. From this forefront, Professor Iba shares the possibilities of practical application.

**[Vol. 3] Professor Mamoru Komachi, Graduate School of Social Data Science, Hitotsubashi University**
**"AI is a tool. Humans are responsible for how it is used."**
Professor Komachi, a leading authority in natural language processing, discusses the division of roles between AI and humans, the possibilities of social data science, and the necessary mindset for companies to utilize AI responsibly. The importance of correctly grasping "AI as a tool" emerges.

### ■ Features of AI Future Talks

- Features researchers from top Japanese universities such as the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, and Keio University.
- Explains specialized terminology in a simple business context for executives, innovators, and active business professionals.
- Focuses on themes directly related to management, such as "the essence of AI," "avenues for Japanese companies," and "industry-academia collaboration."
- All content is publicly available free of charge (no membership registration required).
- Series is ongoing: Further discussions with prominent researchers will be released sequentially.