Presentation to the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy: Reverse AI for Organizational and Governmental Accountability

This presentation to the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy talks about how individuals and communities can use AI to empower themselves to hold organizations and governments accountable for their actions and policy decisions. Termed “reverse AI”, the presentation offers two case studies to show how information asymmetry, especially that between the individual and the corporation or government, can be reversed by a proper investment of resources and skills on the AI space that can be used to elicit greater transparency and accountability from the business and policy-making processes of corporations and governments, to bring some measure of control back to individuals and communities.

This presentation is part of a multi-week course entitled Digital Governance: How to Redesign Technology, Law and Markets, offered by Professor Ohashi, Tokyo School of Public Policy and Mr Hiroki Habuka, Deputy Director, Digital Economy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan.