Announcement of the Release of AI Interview Magazine "AI Future Talks" Episodes 9 & 10
Defide Inc., an AI/DX consulting company, has released the 9th and 10th episodes of its AI interview magazine "AI Future Talks." These episodes feature discussions with leading AI researchers, Masahiko Ohsawa (AGI researcher) and Yoshinobu Hagiwara (Symbol Emergence Robotics researcher), exploring the essence of the relationship between AI and humans.
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## Press Release Information
Title: Announcement of the Release of AI Interview Magazine "AI Future Talks" Episodes 9 & 10
Subtitle:
Company Name: Defide Inc.
Industry: AI/DX Consulting
Body (first 8000 characters): Defide Inc. (2-4-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Tetsuya Yamamoto), an AI/DX consulting company, has released the 9th and 10th episodes of "AI Future Talks," an interview series with leading Japanese AI researchers.
This time, we feature two brilliant young researchers: Dr. Masahiko Ohsawa (Nihon University), an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) researcher earnestly challenging himself to realize "Doraemon," and Dr. Yoshinobu Hagiwara (Soka University), who researches Symbol Emergence Robotics aiming for a society where humans and AI truly coexist as partners. Both are cutting-edge researchers, and their dialogue condenses two perspectives that approach the "essence" of the relationship between AI and humans from the front lines.
■ AI Future Talks: This Dialogue
[Episode 9] Dr. Masahiko Ohsawa, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University / Director, Research Institute for Next Generation Society (RINGS)
Interview Theme: "Bringing together everyone's strengths to challenge the creation of Doraemon"
*Recommended Readers: AI/DX Promotion Managers, AI Researchers/Students
"My dream is to create Doraemon" — Dr. Ohsawa is an AI researcher who has genuinely believed in these words since childhood and continues to work towards their realization. After graduating top of his class from Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology, he is known as the only researcher in Japan to have obtained a Ph.D. with a focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Specializing in Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), he researches bidirectional mutual adaptation where AI "reads human intentions" and "has its intentions read." He was selected as a SoftBank Academia member and boasts numerous awards, including the IEEE CIS-JP Young Researcher Award (youngest record), as an aspiring researcher.
The core of Dr. Ohsawa's discussion lies in "the definition of Doraemon." He argues that accumulating functional requirements alone cannot create a friend — the idea of designing AI from the perspective of social recognition, where "friends are made when they mutually recognize each other as friends," deeply resonates with the philosophy of UI/UX design and human resource development for managers and DX managers promoting AI utilization. His book, "Making Doraemon Seriously" (PHP Shinsho), also explains this philosophy in an easy-to-understand manner for general readers.
▶ Perspectives gained from this dialogue
- The ability to concretely define "What is AGI" determines the quality of AI service design.
- From an era of using AI as a tool to a relationship where AI and humans "read each other's intentions" — implications for next-generation HR and organizational development.
- Japan cannot win through large-scale and efficiency. What is Japan's advantage in AI research centered on "humanity"?
- To students: The interdisciplinary approach required for AGI research and the importance of community building.
[Episode 10] Dr. Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Soka University
Interview Theme: "Aiming to realize AI and robots that coexist as partners"
*Recommended Readers: AI/DX Promotion Managers, AI Researchers/Students
Japan Robot Society Excellent Research and Technology Award (2024), IEEE SMC2024 Best Paper Award, Japan Robot Society Award (2025) — the core of Dr. Hagiwara's research, who is accumulating awards as a young robotics researcher, lies in "Symbol Emergence Robotics." This involves humans and robots/AI collaboratively creating a symbol system through communication — researching AI not merely as a program execution machine, but as a partner that grows with humans and generates new collective intelligence. His co-authored book, "Introduction to AI Robots with ROS2 and Python, Revised 2nd Edition," is widely used as a reference book for implementation-oriented young researchers and engineers.
Dr. Hagiwara emphasizes the perspective that robots, by "understanding the world through different bodies," reveal aspects that were invisible to humans. In Japan, where human views on robots and AI are deeply intertwined with culture, he frankly discusses industry-academia collaboration to root "AI as a co-creation partner" in society, and a vision to involve international communities from Japan.
▶ Perspectives gained from this dialogue
- Accurately knowing "what AI cannot do" is the best way to prevent failures in internal AI adoption.
- Re-evaluating AI agents from the perspective of symbol emergence — potential applications in business design and knowledge management.
- The "social implementation-oriented research style" demonstrated through participation in competitions like RoboCup indicates a new model for industry-academia collaboration.
- To students: The forefront of robot implementation using ROS and practical career paths that hone research results in competitions.
■ AI Future Talks Series Overview
Episode | Researcher | Interview Theme
--- | --- | ---
1 | Satoshi Kurihara (Professor, Keio University / President, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) | Japan, not taking on challenges, cuts off the future of AI.
Keywords:
Title: Announcement of the Release of AI Interview Magazine "AI Future Talks" Episodes 9 & 10
Subtitle:
Company Name: Defide Inc.
Industry: AI/DX Consulting
Body (first 8000 characters): Defide Inc. (2-4-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Tetsuya Yamamoto), an AI/DX consulting company, has released the 9th and 10th episodes of "AI Future Talks," an interview series with leading Japanese AI researchers.
This time, we feature two brilliant young researchers: Dr. Masahiko Ohsawa (Nihon University), an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) researcher earnestly challenging himself to realize "Doraemon," and Dr. Yoshinobu Hagiwara (Soka University), who researches Symbol Emergence Robotics aiming for a society where humans and AI truly coexist as partners. Both are cutting-edge researchers, and their dialogue condenses two perspectives that approach the "essence" of the relationship between AI and humans from the front lines.
■ AI Future Talks: This Dialogue
[Episode 9] Dr. Masahiko Ohsawa, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University / Director, Research Institute for Next Generation Society (RINGS)
Interview Theme: "Bringing together everyone's strengths to challenge the creation of Doraemon"
*Recommended Readers: AI/DX Promotion Managers, AI Researchers/Students
"My dream is to create Doraemon" — Dr. Ohsawa is an AI researcher who has genuinely believed in these words since childhood and continues to work towards their realization. After graduating top of his class from Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology, he is known as the only researcher in Japan to have obtained a Ph.D. with a focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Specializing in Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), he researches bidirectional mutual adaptation where AI "reads human intentions" and "has its intentions read." He was selected as a SoftBank Academia member and boasts numerous awards, including the IEEE CIS-JP Young Researcher Award (youngest record), as an aspiring researcher.
The core of Dr. Ohsawa's discussion lies in "the definition of Doraemon." He argues that accumulating functional requirements alone cannot create a friend — the idea of designing AI from the perspective of social recognition, where "friends are made when they mutually recognize each other as friends," deeply resonates with the philosophy of UI/UX design and human resource development for managers and DX managers promoting AI utilization. His book, "Making Doraemon Seriously" (PHP Shinsho), also explains this philosophy in an easy-to-understand manner for general readers.
▶ Perspectives gained from this dialogue
- The ability to concretely define "What is AGI" determines the quality of AI service design.
- From an era of using AI as a tool to a relationship where AI and humans "read each other's intentions" — implications for next-generation HR and organizational development.
- Japan cannot win through large-scale and efficiency. What is Japan's advantage in AI research centered on "humanity"?
- To students: The interdisciplinary approach required for AGI research and the importance of community building.
[Episode 10] Dr. Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Soka University
Interview Theme: "Aiming to realize AI and robots that coexist as partners"
*Recommended Readers: AI/DX Promotion Managers, AI Researchers/Students
Japan Robot Society Excellent Research and Technology Award (2024), IEEE SMC2024 Best Paper Award, Japan Robot Society Award (2025) — the core of Dr. Hagiwara's research, who is accumulating awards as a young robotics researcher, lies in "Symbol Emergence Robotics." This involves humans and robots/AI collaboratively creating a symbol system through communication — researching AI not merely as a program execution machine, but as a partner that grows with humans and generates new collective intelligence. His co-authored book, "Introduction to AI Robots with ROS2 and Python, Revised 2nd Edition," is widely used as a reference book for implementation-oriented young researchers and engineers.
Dr. Hagiwara emphasizes the perspective that robots, by "understanding the world through different bodies," reveal aspects that were invisible to humans. In Japan, where human views on robots and AI are deeply intertwined with culture, he frankly discusses industry-academia collaboration to root "AI as a co-creation partner" in society, and a vision to involve international communities from Japan.
▶ Perspectives gained from this dialogue
- Accurately knowing "what AI cannot do" is the best way to prevent failures in internal AI adoption.
- Re-evaluating AI agents from the perspective of symbol emergence — potential applications in business design and knowledge management.
- The "social implementation-oriented research style" demonstrated through participation in competitions like RoboCup indicates a new model for industry-academia collaboration.
- To students: The forefront of robot implementation using ROS and practical career paths that hone research results in competitions.
■ AI Future Talks Series Overview
Episode | Researcher | Interview Theme
--- | --- | ---
1 | Satoshi Kurihara (Professor, Keio University / President, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) | Japan, not taking on challenges, cuts off the future of AI.
Keywords: