If yes, please describe key research or investment initiatives in the areas selected above (e.g., dedicated safety teams, funding of research programs, contributions to open-source safety tools, publishing research, partnerships and collaborative research initiatives). You may also indicate whether related outputs are publicly shared, shared with partners or within consortia or not publicly disclosed.
Fujitsu is advancing research, development, implementation, and external collaboration on both AI ethics governance and AI trust technology to realize the social implementation of safe, secure, and reliable AI.
In terms of AI ethics governance, Fujitsu formulated and published the "Fujitsu Group AI Commitment" in 2019, outlining its policy to prioritize value creation through AI, human-centricity, sustainability, respect for human decision-making, transparency, and accountability. They have also established an external AI Ethics Committee, incorporating insights from outside experts in diverse fields such as law, biomedical science, SDGs, and consumer administration, not just AI. Furthermore, the AI Ethics Office leads the Fujitsu Group's AI ethics governance strategy, internal practices, and external dissemination, conducting comprehensive ethical risk reviews for all AI businesses and providing AI ethics education for all employees.
Regarding research and development, Fujitsu is promoting R&D in AI ethics technology based on four pillars: compliance with laws and guidelines, Ethics-by-Design and AI governance, addressing biases inherent in generative AI, and tackling social issues. Specifically, they offer and make public tools such as AI Ethics Impact Assessment to identify and evaluate ethical risks before designing AI services, Fujitsu AI Ethics for Fairness to verify and improve the fairness of AI training data and decisions (including intersectional fairness), Fujitsu LLM Bias Diagnosis to identify bias in LLMs, and AI Risk Management Tools to manage ethical, quality, and security risks inherent in each phase of the AI lifecycle.
In the security aspect of generative AI and advanced AI systems, Fujitsu has developed a "LLM Vulnerability Scanner & Guardrails" that comprehensively evaluates LLM vulnerabilities and automatically applies optimal defense technologies to generative AI. This technology aims to enable even non-experts to safely operate generative AI, addressing the challenges of increasing attacks on generative AI, diversifying attack methods, and a shortage of experts.
For further technical details:
LLM Vulnerability Scanner & Guardrails (Fujitsu Research)
Additionally, in multi-AI agent security technology, Fujitsu is advancing R&D to support proactive measures against new threats to IT systems and generative AI by linking attacking AI agents, defending AI agents, and testing AI agents.
To address misinformation and disinformation and social risks, in response to the societal problem of misinformation and disinformation circulation caused by generative AI and synthetic content, Fujitsu has embarked on technology development for misinformation and disinformation analysis as part of a NEDO public solicitation project under the "Economic Security Important Technology Development Program" in collaboration with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. This initiative is advancing R&D for a misinformation and disinformation countermeasure system that combines misinformation and disinformation detection for each medium, evidence and endorsement management, comprehensive truthfulness judgment support, and misinformation and disinformation impact assessment.
Furthermore, Fujitsu is working on building a misinformation and disinformation countermeasure platform in an "All-Japan" framework involving nine industry-academia partners, which integrates processes from misinformation and disinformation detection to evidence gathering, analysis, and evaluation. In addition, Fujitsu has founded "Frontria", an international consortium to address misinformation and disinformation and new AI risks, bringing together cutting-edge technologies and knowledge from around the world to create a digital society that combines trust and safety.
Through these efforts, Fujitsu continuously promotes R&D to enhance the safety, security, fairness, explainability, transparency, robustness, and trustworthiness of AI, linking research outcomes to AI services, AI platforms, and social implementation.
Related reference:
• Fujitsu Kozuchi AI Platform