Director and CTO, a2ee Inc.

Representative Director, quality design laboratory, Inc.

Doctor of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University

P.E.Jp

First-class Registered Architect

Fellow of JSCE

I founded my company in my sixties with a clear mission: to pursue technological innovation as its core activity. In this pursuit, AI has become indispensable—not merely as a research tool but as a foundational technology that supports sophisticated software engineering and expands human creativity and productivity in everyday work. The current generation of students in their early twenties grew up alongside the digital revolution. Many were born after the release of Windows95, and their formative years coincided with the emergence of early large language models (LLMs) in the 2017. As technology rapidly advanced, so did their familiarity with it. Today’s state-of-the-art models—GPT, BERT, Gemini, and LLaMA—possess the remarkable ability to understand natural human language and generate integrated multimodal outputs, including images, music, and other media. At the same time, public discourse often centers on concerns that AI may replace human labor, reshaping entire occupational structures. However, a closer examination of the principles behind generative AI reveals a more nuanced reality. Rather than replacing human expertise, generative AI functions as an augmentative technology: it enables individuals without specialized training to reach a level of output that resembles professional work. Yet this does not diminish the enduring importance of human capabilities. Judgment, contextual reasoning, ethical consideration, and creative synthesis remain domains in which human intelligence is irreplaceable. Thus, the relationship between humans and AI should not be viewed as competitive but as fundamentally complementary. AI excels in computation, pattern recognition, and large-scale processing, while humans provide purpose, context, and value-driven decision-making. It is this synergy that will shape the future of industry, society, and innovation. At the Kobe Institute of Computing Graduate School, our mission is to cultivate professionals who can master information technologies, collaborate constructively with generative AI, and contribute meaningfully to the well-being of individuals and communities. We aim to educate leaders who possess both technical insight and a human-centered perspective—qualities essential for navigating the evolving landscape of the AI-enabled society.