Table 1.
Students’ response to which ethical issue would be the most important in AI in the future
| Ethical issue | Number of students by nationality and gender | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese/non-Japanese | Female/male | Sum/% | ||||
| Increasing unemployment | 93 | 176 | 122 | 147 | 269 | 57.6% |
| AI impact on human behavior and emotions | 14 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 37 | 7.9% |
| AI control of the society | 2 | 28 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 6.4% |
| AI discrimination, racism, or bias | 15 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 29 | 6.2% |
| Increasing inequality | 6 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 25 | 5.4% |
| Loss of privacy | 5 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 3.9% |
| Robots’ rights and emotions | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 3.6% |
| AI mistakes | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 3.4% |
| Malicious AI | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 3.0% |
| Security risks | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 2.6% |
| Total | 152 | 315 | 236 | 231 | 467 | 100% |