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The Economic Security Intelligence Lab (ESIL) at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, is pleased to host a public symposium featuring the following 4 invited speakers.

Opening remarks
James Schoff (Senior Director, SPF USA)

Panelists
Dimitri Kusnezov (Vice President for Science and Technology, Nuclear Threat Initiative and former Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security)
Marissa Dotter (Lead AI Engineer, Trustworthy & Secure AI, MITRE Corporation)
Matt Chessen (Resident Technical Expert, Center on the Geopolitics of Artificial General Intelligence)

Title: The Next AI Security Challenge: U.S.-Japan Perspectives on Risks from Frontier AI

The symposium co-hosted last year, “U.S.-Japan AI Security: Adversarial AI Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Disinformation and Cyber Threats,” examined how adversarial AI could accelerate the spread of disinformation at a time when the issue had only begun to surface in Japan. Over the past year, the relevance of that discussion has become increasingly clear, as the threat of disinformation using generative AI across text, audio, and video has grown more urgent while geopolitical tensions surrounding Japan have escalated.

With the rapid development of frontier AI, what are the next set of threats that we may have to face in the near future? Building on the foundation of discussions from last year, this year’s symposium aims to anticipate issues that will soon become central to national resilience and international security. Rapid advances in generative and agentic systems, combined with the convergence of AI with biotechnology, quantum computing, autonomous systems, and advanced cyber infrastructure, are reshaping the strategic environment and complicating traditional security and governance frameworks. The event will explore how these shifts create new risks across civilian and national security domains, what “AI assurance” must look like in an era of adversarial manipulation, and how U.S.–Japan cooperation can help establish shared standards, strengthen resilience, and balance innovation with risk mitigation.

This public symposium will open with scene-setting remarks by Jim Schoff (Senior Director, NEXT Alliance Initiative, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA). It will then feature three leading U.S. experts whose collective expertise spans government leadership, technical research, and international policy. Dimitri Kusnezov, former Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and now Vice President for Science & Technology at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, offers a national-level perspective on securing emerging technologies. Marissa Dotter, Lead AI Engineer at MITRE Corporation, contributes deep technical insight into threat-informed defense and the security of AI-enabled systems. Matt Chessen, Resident Technical Expert at the Center on the Geopolitics of Artificial General Intelligence, brings a diplomatic and geopolitical lens shaped by years of work on AI policy in the Indo-Pacific. Together, they offer a comprehensive view of the governance and security challenges arising from rapidly evolving AI capabilities. The discussion will be moderated by Akira Igata (RCAST, The University of Tokyo).

The seminar will be conducted in English, and pre-registration is required to participate.