M. Nakada
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12
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About
M. Nakada is a scholar working at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and technology, with a particular focus on how cultural traditions shape human relationships with robots and artificial intelligence. Drawing on rich comparative frameworks, Nakada's research examines how Japanese, Thai, and Chinese cultural philosophies — including concepts such as *aida* (betweenness) — inform societal attitudes toward AI artifacts and human-robot interaction (HRI) in ways that diverge significantly from Western perspectives. A central contribution of Nakada's work is the development of intercultural information ethics (IIE) as a lens for analyzing how privacy, personhood, and moral responsibility are understood differently across the "Far East" and the West. Nakada's most cited work (2021, 7 citations) offers a pluralistic cultural-ethical analysis of how people perceive robots in the information era, situating technology within deep philosophical traditions rather than treating it as culturally neutral. Through sustained engagement with comparative ethics, Nakada has helped establish that questions about AI and robotics are not merely technical but are profoundly shaped by cultural heritage — a perspective increasingly vital as AI deployment becomes a global phenomenon.
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- 3Robots and Privacy in Japanese, Thai and Chinese Cultures. Discussions on Robots and Privacy as Topics of Intercultural Information Ethics in ‘Far East’2 citations · 2012