第14章サイバー資源の品質とサイバーコンピューティングのガバナンス

Transforming from Society 4.0 to Society 5.0 is more than just words on paper. Japan is actively striving to create Society 5.0, with some objectives slated to be reached by 2030. This includes providing clean and sustainable energy, making advanced health care available to everyone, and optimizing food production and availability. While it remains to be seen whether Japan will achieve these and other goals, the nation is progressing.

The final pillar of responsible computing is responsible impact, which refers to using technologies and innovations that drive positive impact for society and making efficient use of available and future technology. This is related to the World Economic Forum’s goals for Society 5.0/Industry 5.0, which considers the fact that while technology can bring about improvements, such as higher standards of living and greater convenience, it also can have negative effects, such as detrimental impacts on employment, as well as growing disparity and unequal distribution of wealth and information.

Taking shortcuts for cyber economics and other reasons typically causes harm to society and the planet. This applies to any networked software solution when organizations take shortcuts to limit investments in software security, common cyber threat defenses, and software solutions assurance methodologies. Internet solutions are particularly affected by organizations taking shortcuts in the various layers of their solutions to limit costs or other quality enforcement measures at the infrastructure, application frameworks, applications, and information levels. In addition, responsible computing requires that when organizations use the Internet, they should do things like verify information before they post it and make every effort to protect users’ privacy.

When organizations operate in the cloud, responsible computing should guide their efforts to ensure they have responsible data. Particularly since the cloud is often used to share data, organizations must take particular care to protect data privacy while maintaining transparency.

Organizations often rely on third-party providers when using smart ecosystems solutions that involve platform services to support activities such as 3-D modeling, AR/VR, IoT, blockchain, AI/ML, and 3-D/4-D printing. It can be tempting to take shortcuts in implementing these services to limit costs or other quality assurance measures, such as software security, cyber threat defenses, and metaverse smart ecosystems platforms’ cybersecurity assurance methodologies. To comply with responsible computing expectations, organizations should make every effort to be diligent about cybersecurity.

Responsible computing is important in every industry today. Can you elaborate on how useful it is in the health-care industry specifically? (Hint: Think about the combined use of IoT, ML, and XR to analyze and diagnose patients’ medical issues and their possible negative impact and how responsible computing can help.)

Finally, responsible computing should be a priority in super-society solutions that involve platform services supporting autonomous systems, advanced robotics, nanotechnology, super-compute, and autonomous super-systems. High-performance computing (HPC), AI, and quantum computing systems have the potential to help humanity make progress against some of the most complex scientific problems facing the planet, including climate change, food insecurity, and new treatments for diseases. Unlocking the full potential of these computing technologies requires global collaboration among public and private institutions with responsible use at the center of their development and deployment. The recently launched Open Quantum Institute or OQI is an example of the importance of global collaboration bridging science, diplomacy, industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to realize this vision of inclusivity in technology and its applications. The responsible development of nanotechnology tackles environmental, health, and safety implications of nanotechnology and ethical, legal, and societal implications of nanotechnology—and embraces new ideas, including an emphasis on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access, the responsible conduct of research, product stewardship, and the circular economy.