麻豆视频

at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), 麻豆视频, and the Asian Productivity Organization are pleased to co-host a public symposium featuring experts from Mila, the AI research institute led by Professor Yoshua Bengio (Canada), Presidential Council on National AI Strategy (ROK), and SB Intuitions (Japan) titled:

Building AI Readiness:
Safety, Talent, and International Cooperation

As artificial intelligence systems become more capable and increasingly embedded in business, government, education, research, and everyday life, the central challenge is no longer limited to establishing general principles for safe and responsible AI. Governments and societies must also develop the practical capacity to evaluate advanced systems, cultivate the necessary talent, support responsible adoption, and build institutions capable of responding to rapidly changing technological developments. The growing availability of capable open-weight models is further reshaping this landscape by expanding access to advanced AI while raising new questions about safety, safeguards, technological dependence, and the responsibilities of developers and downstream users.

This public symposium will bring together perspectives from Canada, the Republic of Korea, and Japan to examine what it means for a country to be genuinely prepared for the next era of AI. Jonathan Barry, Director of Policy in the Office of Professor Yoshua Bengio at Mila and a former advisor to Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, will address the technical, policy, and international dimensions of AI governance. Jiyun Kim, Director of AI Talent Development Team of the Presidential Council on National AI Strategy of the Republic of Korea will discuss AI talent development and the role of human capital within national AI strategy. Huy H. Nguyen, Chief Research Scientist of the Responsible AI Team at SB Intuitions, will bring a technical industry perspective on responsible AI research, model evaluation, safety benchmarks, and Japanese-language and culturally relevant evaluation. The discussion will explore how responsible AI principles can be translated into practice, what effective AI safety and evaluation institutions should be able to do, which capabilities countries should develop domestically or through trusted partnerships, and what Japan, Korea, and Canada could concretely develop together. It will also draw briefly on the recently published Europe 2031 for considering technological dependence, national capacity, and strategic choice. Opening remarks by Yukio Teramura, Assistant Vice-Minister and Head of the Hiroshima AI Process Secretariat at Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, will situate the discussion within Japan’s international efforts through the Hiroshima AI Process.

Held as part of the Asian Productivity Organization’s Genuine AI Action (GAIA) initiative, this symposium will connect international debates on AI readiness with Japan’s policy, economic, and societal context, while examining how responsible AI research, talent development, institutional capacity, and international cooperation can help countries harness the benefits of increasingly capable AI systems while managing the accompanying risks and dependencies.

Yukio Teramura is the Assistant Vice-Minister and Head of the Hiroshima AI Process Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan.
He obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo in 1997 and joined Japan’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the predecessor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), in the same year.
He has extensive experience in policy planning and regulation in the postal and ICT sectors at MIC. From 2016 to 2018, he served as a Counsellor at the Japan Economic Revitalization Bureau of the Cabinet Secretariat, where he was involved in policymaking on digital transformation through data utilization, autonomous driving, cybersecurity, and smart cities. He also has extensive international experience, including serving as First Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Berlin from 2007 to 2010; as an Associate Expert for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Aid at the Universal Postal Union in Bern from 2013 to 2016; and as Executive Manager for International Business Planning at Japan Post Co., Ltd. from 2019 to 2021.
From 2022 to 2025, he served as Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation at MIC, where he was responsible for bilateral cooperation in the ICT field between Japan and countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In July 2025, he was appointed Assistant Vice-Minister for International Affairs at MIC.

Jonathan Barry is the Director of Policy to Professor Yoshua Bengio, where he focuses on the intersection of policy and AI governance and safety. He has contributed his expertise to building multilateral cooperation on AI, spanning across initiatives at organizations like the UN, World Economic Forum, and International AI Safety Report. Prior to joining Mila, Jonathan was a seasoned policy strategist and served as a trusted advisor to two Canadian Prime Ministers and two Ministers of National Defence. He holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

Jiyun Kim, Ph.D., is the Director of the AI Talent Development Team at the Presidential Council on National AI Strategy of the Republic of Korea. With over 20 years of public service in the Ministry of Education across national policy formulation and higher education administration, she recently orchestrated the national framework for AI talent development as a core pillar of the National AI Action Plan while leading cross-ministerial policy coordination.

Huy H. Nguyen is a Chief Research Scientist at SB Intuitions and a Visiting Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). His research is dedicated to advancing the safety, security, and privacy of multimodal large language models and synthetic media, with a long-term vision of safeguarding artificial general intelligence. Dr. Nguyen earned his Ph.D. from SOKENDAI in 2022, conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics.

Akira Igata (Project Lecturer, RCAST, 麻豆视频)

This symposium requires advance registration. After applying, only those whose participation is confirmed will receive a confirmation email. Please note that you will not be permitted to attend if you have not received this confirmation email.

Identity verification will be conducted at reception on the day of the event. Please be sure to bring a valid photo ID (such as a student ID or driver’s license). For security reasons, entry may be denied if your identity cannot be verified.