Email: shunyoshizawa57@gmail.com

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My research focuses on AI alignment, Safety and Consciousness, with a focus on Metacognition under Dr Ken Mogi at Sony Computer Science Laboratories (SonyCSL) as a Research Assistant. I'm working on Metacognition in Large Language Models (Yoshizawa et al. 2026) and Metacognition and Consciousness (Yoshizawa and Mogi 2026 (in press)), Human-AI cooperation (Yoshizawa and Mogi SfN 2024, and ongoing). I have presented at many conferences, including SfN, ASSC, JSAI and AAAI workshop.

 I’m also an undergraduate physics student at Tokai University (GPA 3.97), researching Quantum/Thermodynamic Resource Theory under Dr Eiki Iyoda.

CV

Papers(Journal/Proceedings) 

  
[1] Yoshizawa S, Onzo A, Nozawa S, Takano T, Ishikawa T and Mogi K (2026) Metacognition of ChatGPT in confidence judgements. Front. Artif. Intell. 9:1694192. doi: 10.3389/frai.2026.1694192

[2] Yoshizawa, S., and Mogi, K. Metacognitive Closure and Consciousness in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (2026). In Press.

Conferences

[3] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2025), “Metacognition in Large Language Models and Humans in Post-Decision Wager”, Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, November, SanDiego, USA 

[4] Ito, Y., Onzo, A., Takano, T., Tamori, Y., Yoshizawa, S., & Mogi, K. (2025). “Aspects of uncertainty cognition in AGI/ASI capabilities and their Implications for AI regulation.”, Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, San Diego, USA 

[5] Inoue, K.,Yoshizawa, S., Tamori, Y., Mogi, K., (2025), “Characterization of LLMs with the Big Five factors of personality”, Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, November, SanDiego, USA 

[6] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2025), “Cooperative behaviour in Large Language Models and Humans”, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence annual meeting, July, Osaka, Japan

[7] Tamori, Y. and Yoshizawa, S., Mogi, K.,(2024), “Towards building an AI alignment paradigm”, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence annual meeting, July, Shizuoka, Japan

[8] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2024), “Metacognition in Large Language Models”, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence annual meeting, July, Shizuoka, Japan

[9] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2024), “Consciousness and Intelligence in Large Language Models”, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness annual meeting, July, The University of Tokyo, Japan

[10] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2024), “Symmetry and asymmetry in human-AI cooperation”, Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, October, Chicago, USA

[11] Yoshizawa, S. and Mogi, K., (2023), “Natural and artificial metacognition in humans and Large Language Models”, Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, November, Washington, D.C., USA

Hackathon

• Meader, A., Che, M., Yoshizawa, S., Li, Y. LLM Military Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Simulation Study, Women in AI Safety Hackathon, Preprint at Apart Research, (2025)

•  Metacognitive Closure and Consciousness in Large Language Models
  -AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium on Machine Consciousness in Burlingame, CA, USA. April 7–9, 2026. (Oral).

• Metacognition in Large Language Models
  -Future day 2025, online, Feb 28th – March 2nd, 2025. The Youtube Video

• Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)

• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

• 2024-2025, G-7 foundation scholarship

• 2023-, School Scholarship

• 2023, Self-study scholarship, Shigeyoshi Matsumae Memorial Fund

• I will be giving a lightning talk at the AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium on Machine Consciousness (April 7–9, 2026) in Burlingame, CA, USA.
  -Yoshizawa, S., and Mogi, K. Metacognitive Closure and Consciousness in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (2026). in press.

• I am pleased to share that my first-author paper has been accepted for publication in the AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change section of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

-Yoshizawa, S., Onzo, A., Nozawa, S., Takano, T., Ishikawa, T., & Mogi, K. Metacognition of ChatGPT in confidence judgements. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. in press (2026).

• I did a poster presentation at the 39th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2025) in Osaka.  Cooperative Behavior in Large Language Models and humans

• I completed the Center for AI Safety course on AI Safety, Ethics and Society (AISES) by

Dan Hendrycks. This is the certificate.

• 2025/4/4 : We had a great time discussing AI Safety and Governance with former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on The Way of AI(AIの道) podcast at UT-LAB. 

• 2025/3/12 : I launched "The Way of AI (AIの道)", a podcast with Dr Ken Mogi and lawyer Yoshie Ito at the UT-lab near the University of Tokyo in Japan. This podcast covers important topics in Alignment, Safety, Governance and Economics related to AI.

• 2025/3/7-9: I participated in the "Woman in AI Safety Research Hackathon". With the great teamwork of Ashley Meader, Mingli (Alondra) Che and Yingquan Li, we submitted our paper on "LLM Military".

• 2025/3/1: I presented at "Future Day 2025" on Metacognition in LLMs. This is my first public talk. Thank you for a wonderful opportunity! The YouTube Video was published.