Digital Agency offers AI app to help draft parliamentary answers

The Digital Agency has launched a trial of an artificial intelligence-powered app to help government officials draft answers to lawmakers' questions and understand their intent ahead of parliamentary sessions. The Digital Agency has started offering, on a trial basis, an app that helps draft answers to lawmakers' questions in parliament, using its Gennai generative artificial intelligence platform, which is available to about 180,000 government workers. The app also helps government officials better understand the intent behind lawmakers' questions in advance. The agency plans to evaluate the app's effectiveness during the current session of the Diet, or Japan's parliament, with the aim to put it into full-scale operation from next year's ordinary Diet session. When a lawmaker's question is entered into the app, AI organizes and analyzes its key points and generates multiple draft answers within minutes based on past government answers and minutes of Diet deliberations.