Japan aims to raise public AI use to 80%

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a policy speech during a Lower House plenary session on Oct. 24. The government has drawn up a draft of its basic program on the development and use of artificial intelligence, aiming to increase the AI utilization rate among the public initially to 50% and eventually to 80%. The draft emphasizes the need to boost AI usage with a view to developing Japan's own AI technologies. It also seeks a policy to attract about ¥1 trillion ($6.4 billion) in private-sector investment to enhance research and development activities. The government aims to adopt the basic program at a Cabinet meeting by the end of the year.