So back when I was in Taiwan, I consider myself quite proficient in writing and speaking in Mandarin. But once I move to Germany, it’s as if I become illiterate, I become handicapped. I don’t even know what the signs say on the street. And then assistive technology means to restore my balance with the social context at that point. So there’s a lot of especially for elderly people care from Japan, a lot of use of AI to assist the elderly people so that they can still be a fully participating member of the society. So this reintegration of handicapped people, and it’s not a part of the population, it’s everyone, right? Once I move to Germany, I become a handicapped person. So each of us can be handicapped and AI can help humans to reestablish the kind of mutual support rapport that we have in this room, despite the space and time and culture and language variance.

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