AI and Society – Lectures for High School Students

As part of the B’AI Global Forum’s educational engagement, together with Prof. Yuko Itatsu and other colleagues, I gave two talks to high school students in 2023, connecting my expertise in architecture and design with questions of AI and society. My presentations highlighted how AI and machine learning are beginning to influence the design process, raising possibilities for more inclusive and democratic approaches to space-making, while also pointing to the ethical dilemmas of automation in creative fields.

• August 4, 2023 – Fukuoka Prefectural Chikushigaoka High School
  Lecture hosted at the University of Tokyo Asano Campus, Science Building 3.

• September 30, 2023 – Sapporo Daiichi High School
  Lecture hosted at the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, Engineering Building 2.

These sessions encouraged students to think critically about AI’s potential, its risks of bias and exclusion, and their own role in shaping a more just and human-centered technological future.