Summary of the project

To ensure the safe and secure use of Cybernetic Avatars¹, (CAs) in society, we will establish a CA conformity assessment system applicable to both physical and virtual CAs. We aim to build a CA Authentication Infrastructure through ‘CA authentication technology’ guaranteeing the ‘oneness of mind and body’ between remote operators and CAs, along with countermeasures against adversarial attacks on this infrastructure.
To resolve social and institutional challenges toward realising avatar-based lifestyles, we will identify issues related to Ethical, Economic, Environmental, Legal, and Social Issues (E³LSI), and make recommendations for technical and institutional solutions domestically and internationally. By enhancing the social acceptance of CAs, we aim to usher in a new communicative civilization mediated by CAs.

¹ CAs encompass avatars such as robots and 3D imagery serving as physical substitutes, as well as ICT and robotic technologies which extend human physical, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities.

Milestone by year 2030

[E³LSI Issues and Policy Development]

We will present an institutional framework which reconciles the protection of individual rights and interests with the CA Safety and Security Assurance Infrastructure, thereby building a foundation for safe and secure social acceptance of CAs. Through the proposal and establishment of a CA conformity assessment system, we will create an integrated authentication scheme covering both physical and virtual CAs. We aim to develop a sustainable research structure capable of comprehensively addressing E³LSI issues: spanning legal, ethical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions, and to advance policy initiatives for CA research and development both domestically and internationally, enabling timely and responsive action on emerging E³LSI challenges.

[Building the CA Safety and Security Assurance Infrastructure]

By 2030, we aim to realise a society in which anyone who wishes to do so can live with extended physical, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities, through the establishment of a CA Safety and Security Assurance Infrastructure and a social acceptance foundation. Security risks inherent in CA deployment, including operator impersonation, CA hijacking, unauthorised acquisition of privacy and skill data stored within CA’s, and skill imitation, will be addressed through robust countermeasures against adversarial attacks, thus delivering a safe, secure, and highly reliable CA operating environment. We will develop a general-purpose CA authentication model adaptable to future technologies, and propose remote operator authentication, CA authentication, and CA certification technologies applicable to Socio-CAs and In-body CAs developed by other projects, building a comprehensive safety and security assurance infrastructure validated through each CA service demonstration.

R&D Item progress reports

• [1] Collaboration between projects and support for social experiments and data collection
• [2] Building the CA Safety and Security Infrastructure.
• [3] E³LSI Issues and Policy Development
• Progress Report (363 KB)

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• Summary of the project (198 KB)