8th ICSSB @Tokyo, 06/25-27, 2025
International Conference on Social Science and Business
Climate Change and Corporate Social Responsibility
Local Host
Keynote Speaker
US-Japan Outcomes Under Japan’s 2023 G7 Presidency for AI and Gender Equality
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been rapidly accelerating advancements in digital and emerging technologies, leading to the public launch of the generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, on November 30, 2022, and sparking global interest and concern about how AI might be leveraged to disrupt or amplify different forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls in all their diversity. International decision-makers, including the US and Japan, swiftly pivoted to adopt and implement interim policies on AI and the debate on international AI governance dominated high-level political forums, including the 2023 G7 Japan Presidency. In parallel, epistemic communities in civil society mobilized to advocate for gender equality, human rights, and the inclusion of women and marginalized voices in AI governance and digital development. Looking at high-level multilateral forums in which Japan and the US are key players, this chapter investigates key deliberations on policy outcomes for developing more inclusive digital governance on AI and adjacent emerging technologies for the US and Japan, with a focus on bridging the digital gender gap, and how this impacts US-Japan relations. To do this, we will compare US and Japan commitments to and outcomes in bridging the digital gender gap, including through providing insights from oral histories of the key actors leading feminist advocacy on AI and emerging technologies at the G7 Japan and G20 India forums during this historic inflection point in global governance.
Venue
TKP Garden City Premium Tokyo Station Marunouchi Central
12th floor, Marunouchi Chuo Building, 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
