Professor Arisa Ema

Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

Arisa Ema is a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project in Japan and AIST Department of Information Technology and Human Factors. She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo and previously held a position as Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. Professor Ema’s research interests focus on the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence. She is co-founder of the Acceptable Intelligence with Responsibility Study Group (AIR), established in 2014, which seeks to address emerging issues and relationships between AI and society. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), and chairs the Public Affairs Committee of the Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA). Professor Ema is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on AI for Humanity, and of the WHO Expert Committee on Ethics/Governance of AI and Health. Previously, she was also a member of the Council for Social Principles of Human-centric AI, at The Cabinet Office of Japan, which released “Social Principles of Human-Centric AI” in 2019.