Japan digital minister has ‘AI warning’, says ‘The point of this change is that…’
Japan must accelerate its development of artificial intelligence (AI) or risk becoming an “AI colony” to other nations, the country’s digital minister has warned. Digital Minister Hisashi Matsumoto delivered the AI warning on Friday (June 5), emphasising the high stakes in the rapidly evolving technology landscape. According to a report by news agency Reuters, he stated his hope that “many Japanese people understand that we need to press ahead with AI development, or we’ll end up becoming an ‘AI colony’.”
Matsumoto’s stark AI warning came as he defended a government-drafted bill seeking to amend Japan’s personal data protection law.
