Workshop on the Neural Basis of Democracy
Date
Location
Description
OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 12
Workshop on the Neural Basis of Democracy
Democracy is in crisis in the face of fake news and sensational escalations facilitated by generative AIs and social media. This research partnership between OIST and Keio University X Dignity Center aims to clarify the brain mechanisms that enabled democracies in human societies and how they can be compromised or facilitated by information technologies, through interdisciplinary dialogues by researchers in cognitive science, neural computation, multi-agent systems, social science, law and humanities.
Date: Friday 26th, June 2026
Place: OIST Land neXus
Program
Session 1. What is Democracy: Core Principles
Session 2. What Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms underlie Democracy
Session 3. How Democracies Emerged, Evolved, and Collapsed
Session 4. How AIs and Internet can Facilitate Democracy
Panelists
- Kenji Doya (OIST Neural Computation Unit)
- Wolfgang Ertl (Keio University Faculty of Letters)
- Masahiko Haruno (CiNet Computational Social Neuroscience Group)
- Yusuke Hayashi (AI Alignment Network)
- Masatoshi Kokubo (Keio University Law School)
- Yohsuke Murase (RIKEN iTHEMS)
- Ekaterina Sangati (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)
- Shinsuke Suzuki (Hitotsubashi University Social Data Science)
- Wataru Toyokawa (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)
- Tatsuhiko Yamamoto (Keio University Law School)
- more to be announced
Participants
This is an in-person event aimed for informal discussion by about 20 people. If you are interested in actively engage in this discussion, please contact the organizer.
Organizers
- Kenji Doya (OIST Neural Computation Unit)
- Tatsuhiko Yamamoto (Keio University Law School)
Co-Sponsors
Contact
For general information about the event series, please email academic-partnerships@oist.jp .
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