INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a line-of-sight acquisition unit that acquires line-of-sight information of a driver from a line-of-sight detection unit that detects a line of sight of the driver; a voice acquisition unit that acquires voice information of the driver from a sound collection unit; an operation reception unit; and a risk level calculation unit. The operation reception unit receives an operation instruction uttered by the driver when a predetermined wake word is included in a voice of the driver. The risk level calculation unit calculates a risk level of a vehicle driven by the driver and the surroundings of the vehicle. The operation reception unit has a wake word omission function of receiving the operation instruction uttered by the driver even if the wake word is not included in the voice of the driver while the driver continuously views a predetermined range in the vehicle, and disables the wake word omission function when the risk level calculated by the risk level calculation unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.