Curriculum Vitae

CV

Career history, works, and talks.

AI Researcher and Ethicist

Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University

Fields: AI Ethics, Animal Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy

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Appointments

2025-04 - Present
Researcher
Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University
2025-04 - Present
Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Education

2020-04 - 2025-03
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Hokkaido University
2016-04 - 2020-03
School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Kyushu Institute of Technology

Degrees

2025-03
Ph.D. in Information Science
Hokkaido University

Awards

2025-03
Dean's Award
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
2025-03
Special Committee Award
The Association for Natural Language Processing
JETHICS: Japanese Ethics Understanding Evaluation Dataset
2024-09
Encouragement Award
Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies
Constructing a dataset for evaluating Japanese moral understanding in language models
2023-04
Presentation Award
Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy
Is Effective Altruism a Moral Obligation?: A Justification from Consequentialist and Kantian Perspectives
2021-12
Excellent Research Meeting Award
Kotoba Engineering Research Group
A medical paper retrieval model considering paper structure and title independently
2020-05
Student Encouragement Award
Information Processing Society of Japan, Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Group
Automatic extraction of primitive actions toward zero-shot deep learning of daily activities
2019-11
Excellent Student Presentation Award
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Branch
Exploring intermediate representations for zero-shot action recognition

Research projects

2025-05 - 2027-04
Beyond Anthropocentrism: Rethinking the Future of Human Society through Animals, AI, and Cyborgs
The Toyota Foundation
The 50th Anniversary Grant Program; Principal investigator
2025-04 - 2028-03
Development of Anti-Speciesist AI and Datasets Based on Philosophical Research
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
2025-04 - 2026-03
Evaluating and Mitigating Speciesist Bias in Large Language Models Based on Animal Ethics
Suntory Foundation
Challenge Research Grant for Young Researchers; Principal investigator
2024-08 - 2025-07
Rethinking Philosophical Methodology: Exploring the Possibility of Improving Philosophical Thought Experiments through Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
Suntory Foundation
Research Grant: Toward the Future of Scholarship; Co-investigator
2023-04 - 2025-03
New Concepts of Free Will and Responsibility in Near-Future Society
The Toyota Foundation
New Human Society Co-created with Advanced Technologies; Co-investigator
2022-04 - 2025-03
Development of AI that Makes Autonomous Moral Judgments through Weighted Majority Voting among Normative Ethical Theories
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Teaching

2025-10 - Present
Ethics of AI and Animals
Okayama University
2025-04 - Present
Introduction to Thinking Skills
Sugiyama Jogakuen University
2023 - 2024
AI and Ethics: Bias, Implementing Ethics, and Enhancement
Hokkaido University CHAIN Program, AI and Human Society

Service

2024-12 - Present
Steering Committee Member
Animal Ethics Kaigi
2024 - Present
Board Member
Animal Liberator
2023 - 2025
Organizing Committee Member
Forum for Young Philosophers

Memberships

2025 - Present
The Japanese Psychological Association
2024 - Present
Animal Ethics Kaigi
2024 - Present
Japanese Society for Ethics
2023 - Present
Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy
2023 - Present
Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
2022 - Present
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
2021 - Present
The Association for Natural Language Processing

Works

Journal articles

Ethics of the Design of Animal-like Robots
Kamil Mamak, Masashi Takeshita, Hayate Shimizu. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2026.
DOI
Philosophical Significance of Artificial Intuitions
Kiichi Inarimori, Masashi Takeshita, Arata Matsuda, Kengo Miyazono. Erkenntnis, 2026.
DOI
The Wrongness of Consuming Meat and Animal Farming as an Achievement Verb: A Critical Examination of Asano's Argument
肉を消費することの不正さと達成動詞としての畜産――浅野の論証の批判的検討――
石原諒太, 竹下昌志. Society and Ethics, 2025.
Examining the Beneficial and Harmful Impacts of AI on Nonhuman Animals
AIが非ヒト動物に与える有益・有害な影響の検討
竹下昌志. Applied Ethics, 2025.
DOI
What should philosophers do with “deceptive” intuition pumps? Restrictionism vs reformism
Arata Matsuda, Masashi Takeshita. Philosophical Psychology, 2025.
DOI
Speciesism in natural language processing research
Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka. AI and Ethics, 2025.
DOI
Is Effective Altruism a Moral Obligation?: A Justification from Consequentialist and Kantian Perspectives
効果的利他主義は道徳的義務なのか? --帰結主義とカント的観点からの正当化
竹下昌志, 清水颯. Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, 2024.
DOI
Bad Recommendations of Transformative Experiences
変容的経験の悪しき推奨
佐々木梨花, 竹下昌志. Applied Ethics, 2024.
In Defense of Moral AI Enhancement
道徳的AIエンハンスメントの擁護
竹下昌志. Applied Ethics, 2023.
DOI
Speciesist language and nonhuman animal bias in English Masked Language Models
Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Information Processing & Management, 2022.
DOI
MIss RoBERTa WiLDe: Metaphor Identification Using Masked Language Model with Wiktionary Lexical Definitions
Mateusz Babieno, Masashi Takeshita, Dusan Radisavljevic, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Applied Sciences, 2022.
DOI

Conference papers

JETHICS: Japanese Ethics Understanding Evaluation Dataset.
Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2026.
DOI
JBBQ: Japanese Bias Benchmark for Analyzing Social Biases in Large Language Models
Hitomi Yanaka, Namgi Han, Ryoma Kumon, Lu Jie, Masashi Takeshita, Ryo Sekizawa, Taisei Kato, Hiromi Arai. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), 2025.
DOI
Towards Theory-based Moral AI: Moral AI with Aggregating Models Based on Normative Ethical Theory
Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Proceedings of the Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Collaboration: Socio-Technical Approaches Workshop, 2023.
Development of Japanese WSC273 Winograd Schema Challenge Dataset and Comparison between Japanese and English BERT Baselines
Ryo Hashimoto, Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 2023.
Utilizing BERT with Auxiliary Sentences Generation to Improve Accuracy of Japanese Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task
Yiyang Zhang, Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Proceedings of the Language Technology Conference (LTC’23), 2023.
Can Existing Methods Debias Languages Other than English? First Attempt to Analyze and Mitigate Japanese Word Embeddings
Masashi Takeshita, Yuki Katsumata, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, 2020.

Book chapters

Speciesism in Natural Language Processing Research
自然言語処理研究における種差別
竹下昌志, Rafal Rzepka. Dignity and AI/Robots, 2026.
Publisher Amazon
Chapter 10: Generative AI: Who Is It For?
第10章生成AI：それは誰のためのものか
竹下昌志. Introduction to ELSI: Aspects of Advanced Science, Technology, and Society, 2025.
Publisher Amazon

Preprints

LLM-jp: A Cross-organizational Project for the Research and Development of Fully Open Japanese LLMs.
Akiko Aizawa, Eiji Aramaki, Bowen Chen, Fei Cheng, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Rintaro Enomoto, Kazuki Fujii, Kensuke Fukumoto, Takuya Fukushima, Namgi Han, Yuto Harada, Chikara Hashimoto, Tatsuya Hiraoka, Shohei Hisada, Sosuke Hosokawa, Lu Jie, Keisuke Kamata, Teruhito Kanazawa, Hiroki Kanezashi, Hiroshi Kataoka, Satoru Katsumata, Daisuke Kawahara, Seiya Kawano, Atsushi Keyaki, Keisuke Kiryu, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Takashi Kodama, Takahiro Kubo, Yohei Kuga, Ryoma Kumon, Shuhei Kurita, Sadao Kurohashi, Conglong Li, Taiki Maekawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yusuke Miyao, Kentaro Mizuki, Sakae Mizuki, Yugo Murawaki, Ryo Nakamura, Taishi Nakamura, Kouta Nakayama, Tomoka Nakazato, Takuro Niitsuma, Jiro Nishitoba, Yusuke Oda, Hayato Ogawa, Takumi Okamoto, Naoaki Okazaki, Yohei Oseki, Shintaro Ozaki, Koki Ryu, Rafal Rzepka, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Shota Sasaki, Satoshi Sekine, Kohei Suda, Saku Sugawara, Issa Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hisami Suzuki, Jun Suzuki, Toyotaro Suzumura, Kensuke Tachibana, Yu Takagi, Kyosuke Takami, Koichi Takeda, Masashi Takeshita, Masahiro Tanaka, Kenjiro Taura, Arseny Tolmachev, Nobuhiro Ueda, Zhen Wan, Shuntaro Yada, Sakiko Yahata, Yuya Yamamoto, Yusuke Yamauchi, Hitomi Yanaka, Rio Yokota, Koichiro Yoshino. CoRR, 2024.
DOI

Essays and reviews

Becoming a Vegan Minority: From the Perspective of Transformative Experience
ヴィーガンというマイノリティになる―変容的経験の観点から
竹下昌志. Philcul, 2026.
Publisher Amazon
Review: Višak, T. (2022) Capacity for Welfare across Species. Oxford University Press.
【書評】Višak, T. (2022) Capacity for Welfare across Species. Oxford University Press.
竹下昌志, 篠崎大河, 佐々木健人. Applied Ethics, 2025.
DOI
Longtermism and Nonhumans: Thinking About AI and Nonhuman Animals Through the Example of Pandemics
長期主義と人間以外――パンデミックの例を通してＡＩと非ヒト動物について考える
竹下昌志. Gendai Shiso, 2024.
Publisher Amazon
Review: Shun Tsugita, Introduction to AI That Makes Sense
【書評】次田瞬『意味がわかるAI入門――自然言語処理をめぐる哲学の挑戦』
竹下昌志. Philcul, 2024.
Review: Nico D. Müller (2022) Kantianism for Animals
【書評】Nico D. Müller (2022) Kantianism for Animals
清水颯, 竹下昌志. Applied Ethics, 2024.
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Other

Animal Experiments, Utilitarianism and Production-Consumption Gap
動物実験、功利主義、生産-消費ギャップ
竹下昌志. Toyota Technological Institute Discussion Paper, 2024.
DOI

Talks

Invited talks

2026

Humans and Nonhuman Animals in AI Ethics
AI倫理における人間と人間以外の動物
竹下昌志
2026-04-20 · 1st Shakaken Seminar: AI and Ethics · Invited
長期主義はどのように擁護可能か
竹下昌志
2026-02-13 · 長期主義研究会 · Invited

2025

How to Evaluate Speciesism in LLMs?
Masashi Takeshita
2025-12-03 · Design Fiction for Animal-Robot Interaction: in the new era of AI — Workshop Exploring the Future of Animals and Robots · Invited
How Can Ethics and AI Work Together?
倫理学とAIはどのように手を取り合えるか
竹下昌志
2025-12 · Jinmoncom 2025 · Invited

2024

Speciesism and Natural Language Processing Research
Masashi Takeshita
2024-06-14 · The Satellite Hybrid Workshop “History and Philosophy on the Computing and Algorithmic Environments” · Invited
AIを用いた道徳的意思決定支援の道徳的問題
竹下昌志
2024-03-27 · Journal Club on Human-AI Decision Making · Invited

2023

Speciesism in natural language processing research
Masashi Takeshita
2023-10-07 · Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics · Invited
NLP研究（者）における種差別
竹下昌志
2023-09-10 · 第3回尊厳学フォーラムシンポジウム「生成AIと尊厳」 · Invited
効果的利他主義は道徳的義務なのか？：帰結主義とカント的な観点からの正当化
竹下昌志, 清水颯
2023-05-14 · EA Japan Online Seminar · Invited

International conference presentations

2026

What’s Wrong with Being Menhera?: Individual Resistance to Suicidism in Japan
Nana Kawamura, Masashi Takeshita
2026-06-09 · Sixth biennial conference of International Association for the Philosophy of DEATH & DYING
Workplace Democracy for Nonhuman Animals
Kiyoharu Sakakibara, Masashi Takeshita
2026-03-28 · IVRJ 2026: The 3rd IVR Japan International Conference
JETHICS: Japanese Ethics Understanding Evaluation Dataset
Masashi Takeshita, Rafal Rzepka
2026-01 · AAAI 2026 Workshop on Machine Ethics

2025

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot
Masashi Takeshita
2025-07 · 24th biennial international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT 2025)
Toward Ecologically Embedded Mind in Non-Human Animal Science
Masashi Takeshita, Masayoshi Someya
2025-04-25 · The second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association (PAMBA)

2024

Rethinking Moral Status through an Animistic Relational Approach
Hayate Shimizu, Masashi Takeshita
2024-12-15 · International Society of East Asian Philosophy 4th ISEAP Conference
Philosophical Significance of Artificial Intuitions: A Case Study of LLMs’ Intuitions on Free Will and Determinism
Kiichi Inarimori, Masashi Takeshita, Kengo MIyazono
2024-06-01 · 4th European Experimental Philosophy Conference

2023

Moral Intuition of GPT-3.5 and Its implication for Experimental Philosophy
Kiichi Inarimori, Masashi Takeshita
2023-06-07 · 23rd biennial international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology

Domestic conference presentations

2026

未来の動物－ロボット関係のデザイン・フィクション：国際学会内ワークショップ実施報告
春日遥, 竹下昌志, 春日宥一郎, 宮本道人
2026-03-14 · ヒトと動物の関係学会第32回学術大会
AI Philosopher: Toward the Automated Generation of Philosophical Papers
AI哲学者: 哲学論文の自動生成に向かって
竹下昌志, 松田新
2026-03 · The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026)
参加型WS「クマとの共生を考える」：倫理的観点
竹下昌志
2026-01-31 · 動物倫理かいぎ第１回大会〜ヒメヒミズかいぎ〜

2025

バーチの市民会議アプローチの批判的検討
竹下昌志
2025-11-30 · 第58回(2025年度)大会日本科学哲学会
メンヘラで何が悪いの？：自殺排除主義への当事者的抵抗
河村菜那, 竹下昌志
2025-11-29 · 第58回(2025年度)大会日本科学哲学会
A Critical Examination of the "Human-likeness" Required of Medical AI
医療AIに求められる「人間らしさ」の批判的検討
竹下昌志
2025-11-22 · 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Bioethics
Euthanasia of Laboratory Animals
実験動物の安楽死
竹下昌志
2025-11-22 · 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Bioethics
Are the Speciesist Intuitions of Typical Meat Eaters Worth Considering in Reflective Equilibrium?
典型的な肉食者の種差別的直観は反省的均衡において考慮に値するか？
竹下昌志
2025-10 · 76th Conference of the Japanese Society for Ethics
There Are No Differences in Welfare Capacities Across Animal Species: In Defense of Tatjana Višak's Argument
異なる動物種の福祉能力に違いはない――Tatjana Višakの議論を擁護する
綿引周, 竹下昌志
2025-10 · 76th Conference of the Japanese Society for Ethics
How Can Moral Inquiry Based on Reflective Equilibrium Make Successful Progress?: Animal Ethics as a Case Study
反省的均衡に基づく道徳的探究はいかにして成功裡に進展するか：動物倫理学をケーススタディとして
米倉悠平, 竹下昌志
2025-10 · 76th Conference of the Japanese Society for Ethics
種差別的偏見と証言的不正義
竹下昌志
2025-09-27 · 中部哲学会2025年大会
Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Speciesism Scale
日本語版種差別尺度の信頼性および妥当性の検討
竹下昌志, 神野雄, 香川璃奈
2025-09-05 · 89th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
羽田空港航空機衝突事故におけるペットの機内扱いに関するオンラインニュース記事への人々の反応の分析
高江可奈子, 竹下昌志, イムドンウ, 田中幹人
2025-05-29 · 2025年度人工知能学会全国大会（第39回）
AI倫理における常識道徳利用の限界を倫理学的に考える：メタ倫理学と動物倫理学の観点から
竹下昌志
2025-05-28 · 2025年度人工知能学会全国大会（第39回）
JETHICS: 日本語道徳理解度評価用データセット
竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ
2025-03-11 · 言語処理学会第31回年次大会(NLP2025)
AIを使って動物を助ける方法
竹下昌志
2025-02-01 · 動物倫理かいぎ：創立記念イベント

2024

動物倫理学は動物のために何ができるか？
竹下昌志
2024-11-16 · 生命倫理学会第36回年次大会ワークショップ：動物という“対話できない”者たちの生命倫理：学術・市民活動・動物党の連帯の潮流
モラル・ベジタリアニズムと達成動詞としての畜産——浅野の論証の批判的検討——
石原諒太, 竹下昌志
2024-09-29 · 第75回日本倫理学会大会
非ヒト動物にとって労働とは何か
竹下昌志, 榊原清玄
2024-09-28 · 第75回日本倫理学会大会
非ヒト動物は同意できるのか
竹下昌志
2024-09-27 · 第75回日本倫理学会大会ワークショップ：動物倫理の諸問題
きつねは適応的選好を持ちうるか：非ヒト動物における適応的選好の可能性を探る
竹下昌志, 佐々木梨花
2024-06-01 · 応用哲学会第16回年次研究大会
親友になるのに道徳は関係あるのか?: 出口のAI親友論の批判的検討
竹下昌志
2024-06-01 · 応用哲学会第16回年次研究大会
AI安全性のための日本語徳倫理データセットの作成
竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2024-05-30 · 2024年度人工知能学会全国大会（第38回）
ヒューリスティックと遺伝的アルゴリズムを用いた自動プロンプトチューニング手法
進藤稜真, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 竹下昌志, 荒木健治
2024-03-14 · 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024)
雑談中の発話と文脈から話者情報を抽出する LLM の能力に関する検証
連慎治, 竹下昌志, 伊藤敏彦
2024-03-14 · 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024)
日本語社会的バイアスQAデータセットの提案
谷中瞳, 関澤瞭, 竹下昌志, 加藤大晴, Namgi Han, 荒井ひろみ
2024-03-13 · 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024)
日本語徳倫理データセットの開発に向けて:英語データセットの翻訳と日本語データセットの比較
竹下昌志, 連慎治, ジェプカ・ラファウ, 荒木健治
2024-03-12 · 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024)

2023

大規模言語モデルの出力を技術的観点から考える
竹下昌志
2023-12-03 · 日本科学哲学会第56回(2023年度)大会ワークショップ：AI×実験哲学の可能性
Can we defend the values of human-robot and human-AI intimate relationships?
人間とAI・ロボットの親密な関係の価値を擁護できるか？
Masashi Takeshita
2023-06-06 · 2023年度人工知能学会全国大会（第37回）
効果的利他主義は道徳的義務なのか？帰結主義とカント的な観点からの正当化
竹下昌志, 清水颯
2023-04-22 · 応用哲学会第15回年次研究大会
JCommonsenseMorality: Japanese Dataset for evaluating commonsense morality understanding
JCommonsenseMorality: 常識道徳の理解度評価用日本語データセット
竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2023-03-14 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)
補助文自動生成を用いたBERTによる日本語アスペクトベース感情分析におけるアスペクトカテゴリ検出の精度向上
張懿陽, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2023-03-14 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)
個人の幸福の予測のためのデータセット構築
勝又友輝, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2023-03-07 · 第15回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム(DEIM2023)

2022

コンパニオンアニマルから考える人工主体との関係
竹下昌志
2022-11-06 · 科学基礎論秋の研究例会ワークショップ「AIに主体性を帰属させること：学際的アプローチの中間報告」
NLPモデルの性能の再現可能な測定に向けて:再現性の時間軸モデルと日本のNLP研究の再現性の簡易的調査
竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2022 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)
日本語Wikipediaからの属性値抽出タスクにおけるクエリの有効性検証
坂田将樹, 中山功太, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 関根聡, 荒木健治
2022 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)
文脈による危険度変化の予測のためのデータセット構築
勝又友輝, 竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2022 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)

2021

英語の言語モデルに内在する種差別的バイアスの分析
竹下昌志, ジェプカラファウ, 荒木健治
2021 · 言語処理学会年次大会発表論文集(Web)

2020

日常行動のZero-shot Deep Learningに向けた基底的動作の自動抽出の検討
竹下昌志, 松木萌, 前川卓也, 井上創造
2020 · 情報処理学会研究報告(Web)

Appointments

Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)

Education

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Degrees

Ph.D. in Information Science

Awards

Dean's Award

Special Committee Award

Encouragement Award

Presentation Award

Excellent Research Meeting Award

Student Encouragement Award

Excellent Student Presentation Award

Research projects

Beyond Anthropocentrism: Rethinking the Future of Human Society through Animals, AI, and Cyborgs

Development of Anti-Speciesist AI and Datasets Based on Philosophical Research

Evaluating and Mitigating Speciesist Bias in Large Language Models Based on Animal Ethics

Rethinking Philosophical Methodology: Exploring the Possibility of Improving Philosophical Thought Experiments through Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

New Concepts of Free Will and Responsibility in Near-Future Society

Development of AI that Makes Autonomous Moral Judgments through Weighted Majority Voting among Normative Ethical Theories

Teaching

Ethics of AI and Animals

Introduction to Thinking Skills

AI and Ethics: Bias, Implementing Ethics, and Enhancement

Service

Steering Committee Member

Board Member

Organizing Committee Member

Memberships

The Japanese Psychological Association

Animal Ethics Kaigi

Japanese Society for Ethics

Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy

Philosophy of Science Society, Japan

The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

The Association for Natural Language Processing

Works

Journal articles

Ethics of the Design of Animal-like Robots

Philosophical Significance of Artificial Intuitions

The Wrongness of Consuming Meat and Animal Farming as an Achievement Verb: A Critical Examination of Asano's Argument

Examining the Beneficial and Harmful Impacts of AI on Nonhuman Animals

What should philosophers do with “deceptive” intuition pumps? Restrictionism vs reformism

Speciesism in natural language processing research

Is Effective Altruism a Moral Obligation?: A Justification from Consequentialist and Kantian Perspectives

Bad Recommendations of Transformative Experiences

In Defense of Moral AI Enhancement

Speciesist language and nonhuman animal bias in English Masked Language Models

MIss RoBERTa WiLDe: Metaphor Identification Using Masked Language Model with Wiktionary Lexical Definitions

Conference papers

JETHICS: Japanese Ethics Understanding Evaluation Dataset.

JBBQ: Japanese Bias Benchmark for Analyzing Social Biases in Large Language Models

Towards Theory-based Moral AI: Moral AI with Aggregating Models Based on Normative Ethical Theory

Development of Japanese WSC273 Winograd Schema Challenge Dataset and Comparison between Japanese and English BERT Baselines

Utilizing BERT with Auxiliary Sentences Generation to Improve Accuracy of Japanese Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task

Can Existing Methods Debias Languages Other than English? First Attempt to Analyze and Mitigate Japanese Word Embeddings

Book chapters

Speciesism in Natural Language Processing Research

Chapter 10: Generative AI: Who Is It For?

Preprints

LLM-jp: A Cross-organizational Project for the Research and Development of Fully Open Japanese LLMs.

Essays and reviews

Becoming a Vegan Minority: From the Perspective of Transformative Experience

Review: Višak, T. (2022) Capacity for Welfare across Species. Oxford University Press.

Longtermism and Nonhumans: Thinking About AI and Nonhuman Animals Through the Example of Pandemics

Review: Shun Tsugita, Introduction to AI That Makes Sense

Review: Nico D. Müller (2022) Kantianism for Animals

Other

Animal Experiments, Utilitarianism and Production-Consumption Gap

Talks

Invited talks

2026

Humans and Nonhuman Animals in AI Ethics

長期主義はどのように擁護可能か

2025

How to Evaluate Speciesism in LLMs?

How Can Ethics and AI Work Together?

参加型WS「クマとの共生を考える」：倫理的観点

効果的利他主義は道徳的義務なのか？帰結主義とカント的な観点からの正当化