{"id":1012801,"date":"2026-06-06T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012801"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:22:38","slug":"japan-digital-minister-has-ai-warning-says-the-point-of-this-change-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/japan-digital-minister-has-ai-warning-says-the-point-of-this-change-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan digital minister has \u2018AI warning\u2019, says \u2018The point of this \u200bchange is that\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan must accelerate its development of artificial intelligence (AI) or risk becoming an \u201cAI colony\u201d to other nations, the country\u2019s 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 \u201cmany Japanese people understand that we need to press ahead with AI development, or we\u2019ll end up becoming an \u2018AI colony\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matsumoto\u2019s stark AI warning came as he defended a government-drafted bill seeking to amend Japan\u2019s personal data protection law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan must accelerate its development of artificial intelligence (AI) or risk becoming an \u201cAI colony\u201d to other nations, the country\u2019s 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 \u201cmany Japanese people understand that we need to press ahead with AI development, or we\u2019ll end up becoming an \u2018AI colony\u2019.\u201d Matsumoto\u2019s stark AI warning came as he defended a government-drafted bill seeking to amend Japan\u2019s personal data protection law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012802,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012801\/revisions\/1012802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}