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Overview of GPAI
Tokyo Expert Support Center

About the establishment of the center

GPAI was launched in June 2020 and Japan has been participating since the beginning. In November 2022, a "GPAI Summit" was held in Tokyo.
In the “G7 Leaders’ Statement on the Hiroshima AI Process” agreed on October 30, 2023, the G7 Leaders welcomed the “Hiroshima Process International Guiding Principles for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems” and the “Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems,” and called on relevant ministers to further advance project-based cooperation with GPAI and other organizations.
As GPAI is expected to promote project activities rooted in empirical knowledge,
the Japanese government proposed the establishment of GPAI Tokyo Expert Support Center to support research for realizing the contents of the above international guiding principles and code of conduct, and to promote activities including gathering evidence for policymaking on generative AI, and it was approved at the GPAI Ministerial Council in December 2023.
In light of this, GPAI Tokyo Expert Support Center was established at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).

Secretary General

Secretary General HARAYAMA Yuko

Background

1996

Ph.D. in Sciences of Education, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
1997

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland
1998

Assistant professor, Department of Political Economy,
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2001

Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
2002

Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
2006

Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) (Part-time member)
2007

External Board Member, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
2008

Member, Sendai City Board of Education
2010

Deputy-Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
2013

Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University
Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) (Full-time member)
Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Full-time member)
2020

Executive Director, RIKEN
2021

International Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2023

(- Present) Member of the Board, Toray Industries
2024

(- Present) Trustee, Yamaguchi University (Part-time member)

Awards

2011

Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur from the French Government

Secretary General HARAYAMA Yuko

Projects

Within the framework of GPAI, we will provide operational and administrative assistance for research studies and projects conducted by GPAI experts, including impactful projects about generative AI promoting the Hiroshima AI Process.