Education
April 2022 - Present: Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Media Network Major
April 2020 - March 2022: Master's Program, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Media Network Major
Specializations
Natural Language Processing, AI Ethics, Animal Ethics
Publication and Presentation
【Papers (Peer-reviewed)】
Takeshita, M., Rzepka, R., & Araki, K. (2022). Speciesist language and nonhuman animal bias in English Masked Language Models. Information Processing & Management, 59(5), 103050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103050
Takeshita, M. (2023). In Defense of Moral AI Enhancement. Applied Ethics, 14, 3-20. https://doi.org/10.14943/ouyourin.14.3 (in Japanese)
Takeshita, M., & Shimizu, S. (2024). Is Effective Altruism a Moral Obligation? - Justification from Consequentialist and a Kantian Perspective. Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, 15, 135-171. https://doi.org/10.14989/287558 (in Japanese)
Sasaki, R., & Takeshita, M. (2024). Bad Advice for Transformative Experience. Applied Ethics, 15, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.14943/ouyourin.15.33 (in Japanese)
Takeshita, M., & Rzepka, R. (2024). Speciesism in Natural Language Processing Research. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00606-3
【Book Chapter】
Takeshita, M. (2024). Longtermism and Nonhumans: Thinking about AI and Nonhuman Animals through the Example of Pandemics. Modern Thought, August 2024 issue, Special Issue = Longtermism, ISBN: 978-4-7917-1468-1 (in Japanese)
Presentation
【International Conference Presentations】
Takeshita, M., Katsumata, Y., Rzepka, R., & Araki, K. (2022). Can Existing Methods Debias Languages Other than English? First Attempt to Analyze and Mitigate Japanese Word Embeddings. in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, 44-55 (Peer-reviewed)
Takeshita, M., Rzepka, R., & Araki, K. (2022). Towards Theory-based Moral AI: Moral AI with Aggregating Models Based on Normative Ethical Theory. in Proceedings of the Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Collaboration: Socio-Technical Approaches Workshop (Peer-reviewed)
Inarimori, K., & Takeshita, M.. (2023). Moral Intuition of GPT-3.5 and Its Implication for Experimental Philosophy. at the 23rd biennial international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). (Peer-reviewed)
Takeshita, M. (2023). Speciesism and Natural Language Processing Research. at Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics. (Invited)
Shimizu, H., & Takeshita, M.. (2024). Rethinking Moral Status through an Animistic Relational Approach. at the 4th ISEAP Conference of the International Society of East Asian Philosophy. (Peer-reviewed)
In addition, I have given over 10 presentations at domestic conferences, over 10 presentations at in-house workshops and research meetings.
Awards
March 1, 2021: Student Encouragement Award at the 65th Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Information Processing Society of Japan.
April 22, 2023: Presentation Award at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy.
September 6, 2024: Received the Encouragement Award at the 19th Young Researchers' Symposium on Natural Language Processing (YANS).
Fellowships and Competitive Funding
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, April 2022 - March 2025. "Development of an Artificial Intelligence that Makes Autonomous Moral Judgments through Weighted Majority Voting among Normative Ethical Theories" (Grant Number: JP22KJ0126)