“SECURITAINMENT”: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance (Lecture by Prof. Jennifer ROBERTSON)

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CCTV cameras are installed almost everywhere in Tokyo and other Japanese cities, and private security systems, introduced in the 1980s, are now standard in most homes. Surveillance is also embedded in everyday life, work, and play and has become “a way of seeing” and influences “ways of being seen.” In this presentation Prof. Robertson explores how and why AI-enabled entertainment and surveillance technologies have become fused, and speculates on the consequences of their triangulation.

Lecturer

Jennifer ROBERTSON

(Tokyo College Professor, The University of Tokyo Professor Emerita, University of Michigan)

Commentator

ITATSU Yuko

(Director, B’AI Global Forum & Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator

Flavia BALDARI

(Project Researcher, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)