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Articles Featuring CEO Kanai, Nakai, and Hamada to Appear in Nikkei Science’s Special Feature “AI, the Brain, and Consciousness”

Articles involving our CEO Ryota Kanai, along with Tomoya Nakai and Hiroaki Hamada, were featured in the special feature “AI, the Brain, and Consciousness” in the September 2026 issue of Nikkei Science, was released on Friday, July 24.
This special feature explores the forefront of research seeking to understand the workings of the human brain and AI as a continuous whole. 

The featured articles are as follows:

  • Ryota Kanai (contributor): “Anthropic’s Pursuit of How AI Thinks”
  • Tomoya Nakai (supervising editor): “Is Prediction the Essence of Intelligence? How AI Opens New Frontiers in Neuroscience”
  • Hiroaki Hamada (in dialogue with Hitoshi Matsubara): “AI, the Brain, and Ghost in the Shell: Can a ‘Ghost’ Reside in a Machine?”


*This magazine is published in Japanese only.

Related link:
  Nikkei Science, September 2026
  https://www.nikkei-science.com/page/magazine/202609.html