International House of Japan Sets AI and Philosophy Talk for November 5
The session pairs Miyake's work implementing autonomous AI characters in game worlds with Hui's philosophical writing on technology, and frames the question it asks as whether Eastern intelligence resides in AI.
Reporting from 1 source: GameBusiness.jp.
The International House of Japan will hold a talk event titled "AI and Philosophy" on November 5, 2026, featuring philosopher Yuk Hui and game AI developer Yoichiro Miyake. Yuko Hasegawa, director of the Art and Design Division at the International House of Japan, moderates. The event is the 13th IHJ Cultural Lobby Interspecies Crosstalk, a collateral program of Art Week Tokyo. Admission is 3,000 yen general and 1,000 yen for students.
Miyake is a professor in the Game and Interactive Art Course at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, and has worked on AI development for large-scale digital games including Final Fantasy XV at Square Enix. He is a director of the Japan Digital Game Association and wrote "Philosophy School for Artificial Intelligence: Eastern Philosophy Edition." Hui is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam who advocates cosmotechnics and technodiversity.
The talk runs from 18:00 to 19:30, with doors opening at 17:30, at the Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall. It is co-organized by the Ushiba Memorial Fellowship and the Research Institute for Advanced Strategies.
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- GameBusiness.jp ゲームAI開発者・三宅陽一郎と哲学者ユク・ホイが対談！「AIと哲学」テーマのクロストークが11月5日に開催