Through a series of six workshops in 2024 and 2025, meetings, and events spread across the three territories, a joint reflection is conducted by South Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese researchers and experts on the effects of artificial intelligence on citizenship and democracy: Can artificial intelligence be an ally of democracies? How can we combat misinformation generated by certain AI? Can AI be a tool for education? How can we guard against AI's interference with privacy? Can there be an ethics of AI? Each workshop leads to the publication of articles in partner media (notably Usbek & Rica and Verse in Taiwan). 

The workshops, moderated by Rahaf Harfoush, a digital anthropologist, are conducted in a hybrid format, each based on a paper written by one of the group's experts. The first workshop in April focused on misinformation, drawing from work on the recent presidential elections in Taiwan by Edward You-Hao Lai, a researcher affiliated with the Institute for Research on Democracy, Society, and Emerging Technologies (DSET). The second workshop in June allowed for a debate on what a feminist ethic of care could be, based on the work of Vanessa Nurock, a philosophy professor at the University of Nice Côte d'Azur. The next workshop will address the risks of AI-related discrimination identified by Kyungsin Park, a law professor at Korea University and Director of Open Net Korea. The experts appreciate the comparative and cooperative nature of the format, as well as its long-term perspective. 

To learn more about the links between AI and misinformation, which were at the heart of the discussions in April 2024 in Taiwan: « L’intelligence artificielle face à la démocratie : comment agir contre la désinformation en ligne ? » (Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: How to Combat Online Misinformation?) in the magazine Usbek & Rica. 

Alongside the workshops, the three embassies are organising cross-invitations for the group's experts. Alexandra Bensamoun, a law professor at Paris-Saclay University and member of the AI committee, invited by Taiwan for Law Day in October, will travel to Japan for a series of debates, while two Japanese and Taiwanese experts will be invited to Seoul for a colloquium organized at the National Assembly Library by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in the Republic of Korea on October 22 (a preparatory event for the "Safety Summit" to be held in Paris in 2025).

As part of the regional debate, Taiwan will host a "Court for Future Generations" event organized by Usbek & Rica in November for the Night of Ideas, which will address the thorny question: "Can Artificial Intelligence Be an Ally of Democracies?"

Other experts in the group include: Ema Arissa, Professor at the University of Tokyo; Adrien Basdevant, lawyer; Janet Zhen-Rong Gan, Professor of Philosophy at Tunghai University; and Jungmin Kwon, Professor at Seoul National University of Education.