DWIH Tokyo Web Talk on “The Future of Work in Industry 4.0 & Society 5.0”

On 31 March, the DWIH Tokyo welcomed four panellists from Germany and Japan to a web talk on "The Future of Work in Industry 4.0 & Society 5.0". More than 150 viewers from Germany and Japan followed the web talk via the live stream on YouTube and engaged in the online discussion.

Web Talk: "The Future of Work in Industry 4.0 & Society 5.0"
On 31 March, the DWIH Tokyo welcomed panellists from Germany and Japan to a web talk on "The Future of Work in Industry 4.0 & Society 5.0". More than 150 viewers from Germany and Japan followed the web talk via the live stream on YouTube and engaged in the online discussion.

In the first hour, the panellists provided insights into how the future of work is envisioned in Japan and Germany – in political roadmaps as well as in practical research. The web talk featured presentations on:

• "Political Roadmaps and Management Challenges for the Work of the Future in Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0" (Dr Martin Pohl, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo)
• "AI and Work – How We Can Shape the Collaboration between Man and Machine" (Dr Matthias Peissner, Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Engineering)
• "Co-existence, Co-operation and Co-evolution between AIs and Humans" (Prof. Dr Junichi Tsujii, Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST Japan)
• "Ethical Questions Concerning the Collaboration of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Society 5.0" (Prof. Dr Arisa Ema, Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo)

The presentations were followed by a 40-minute Q&A session. The audience's questions covered the different ethical approaches of Japan and Germany in general, as well as concrete issues of data security, the prevention of job losses and widening social gaps due to economic inequality. The question of how the current Covid-19 pandemic impacts the future of work in our countries was also brought up, as changes in our work environment and in society have never been so rapid and so easily observable as now.
https://www.dwih-tokyo.org/future_work/