Tokyo University professor calls for blanket ban on AI use by young people
Kuniyoshi Sakai, a language brain scientist, says students are submitting AI-written work without guilt and that classroom AI amounts to a reckless human experiment.
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Japan's AI 'resurrected dead' market stays small as China races ahead
A cultural anthropologist studying services that recreate the dead with generative AI says Chinese use spread fast under early rules, while Japanese users treat the technology as a kind of altar.
Kitakata pulls children's soy sauce posters after AI accusations; lawyer says accusers can be liable
A city contest with no rule against generative AI became a target for online abuse, and the awards ceremony was called off. A lawyer explains when calling a child's drawing AI-made crosses into defamation or insult.
AI replicas of the dead spread with no rules, ethicist warns
Keisuke Sato of Sophia University says services that recreate lost relatives raise questions about consent, dignity and who profits — and Japan is answering none of them.
Single mother won child recognition suit with generative AI at her side, Mainichi podcast hears
A woman argued her own case without a lawyer and won legal recognition of her son's father, a story the paper's city news desk takes up in its November 6 podcast.
A 150-character prompt, 15 seconds: Chinese AI tool pulled personal data from a test site
A Tokyo security firm demonstrated ARTEX, a vulnerability scanner built to run on top of other AI models. Researchers say Chinese hackers favor DeepSeek to power it because its guardrails are loose.
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