Whether you love or hate it, artificial intelligence is here to stay. The question is -- particularly in Japan, which is facing a severely aging population and shrinking of its workforce -- will AI perform tasks that are beneficial to society as a whole? AI has seen phenomenal success with a variety of tasks, such as performing facial recognition and piloting autonomous vehicles, but there are obvious concerns about the negative impacts of the technology on society, such as people losing their jobs to automation, as well as the dangers of new-generation weapons. "It is crucial to have design methodologies for AI that are truly beneficial to humans," Hideki Asoh, deputy director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, said in a recent interview. The beneficial AI movement, promoted by distinguished researchers and leaders in the AI community, including professors Max Tegmark at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stuart Russell at the University of California, Berkeley, is gaining worldwide attention in the discussion of AI safety.