PATH-AI

Our goal is to expand current AI ethics and governance discussions to include human- and culture-centred international views. The project will study the concepts of privacy, agency and trust from a comparative and intercultural perspective focusing on Japan and the UK, and it will aim to contribute to the shaping of the international landscape for AI ethics and governance. We will rely on an experienced and multidisciplinary international team of researchers to build the first of its kind intercultural co-designed framework of this sort. Additionally, responding to the societal challenges raised by the use of data-intensive digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic, we will examine how the complex interplay of privacy, agency and trust has impacted public health responses in Japan and the UK. We believe that much can be learned by holding the human response to the current global public health crisis under a comparative and interculturally-sensitive light.