Members

Planned Research Group

A04 Human-machine social norms research group

Research on establishing new social norms with respect to the development of communicative intelligent systems

Principal Investigator
Fumio SHIMPO (Keio University, Professor)
Special field : Law (Constitutional law, Information law, Robot law)
Role : Management of group's research, proposal of robot law
Co-Investigator
Shinichiro HARATA (Shizuoka University, Associate Professor)
Special field : Law (Information law)
Role : Law and ethics concerning robots, AI, characters
Koichi NAGASHIMA (Teikyo University, Lecturer)
Special field : Law (Code of civil procedure, Environmental law, Medical law)
Role : Civil liability concerning societal implementation of robots
Makoto KUREHA (Osaka University, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor)
Special field : Philosophy, Ethics
Role : Ethics of communication systems / robots
Research Collaborator
Katsumi TAKAHASHI (NTT Secure Platform Laboratories, Senior Research Engineer)
Special field : Information security
Role : Advice on information security
Harumichi YUASA (Institute of Information Security, Professor)
Special field : Law (Information law)
Role : Advice on information security
Kaori ISHII (Chuo University, Professor)
Special field : Law (Information law)
Role : Advice on personal information and privacy protection
Takayuki KATO (Asia University, Professor)
Special field : Law (Constitutional law)
Role : Advice on personal information and privacy protection
Takayuki MATSUO (Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba, Lawyer)
Special field : Legal practices
Role : Advice concerning legal practices
Masahiro KOBAYASHI (Hanamizuki Law Office, Lawyer)
Special field : Legal practices
Role : Advice concerning legal practices
Haruku KAWAMOTO (Keio Research Institute at SFC, Senior Researcher)
Special field : Law (Intellectual property law)
Role : Advice on intellectual property

The Human-Machine Social Norms Research Group will conduct research on establishing new social norms necessary for a society where humans and machines coexist, from the following three perspectives:

  1. Social Systems (Ethical and Social Acceptability)
  2. Legal Systems (Laws and Social Norms)
  3. Integration of ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Issues)

Through accomplishing these tasks, this research group will try to establish fundamentally new measures to meet the situations that will arise from the social implementation of communicative robots and provide new knowledge of the ethical and social systems which will be essential for the social acceptance of communicative robots. Moreover, this group aims to focus on research regarding a 'robot law' that summarizes the principles of the social norms which constitute the basis of those measures and knowledge.

Our project will research and develop unprecedented autonomous systems which will coexist with people. These systems will pose security issues such as 'What kind of utterance content poses what kind of security risk', 'How to tackle such risks', and ethical issues, such as 'What kind of ethical codes are necessary for the content selection of dialogue with robots', 'How to create a safe and secure dialogue environment', and so on. This group will not only examine such comprehensive issues, but also propose the social norms required for a new robot-symbiotic society in which machines (autonomous agents) and humans estimate each other's intentions and desires, and contribute to the realization of a safe and secure society.