As the world faces rapid change and competition over AI, Japan’s step-up is significant for the East Asian region but also the wider world.
The deterioration of security in the Indo-Pacific has generated a great deal of discussion in Japan about the sustainability of the pacificist provisions in its constitution. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key factor in any potential shifting of this position.
One only has to look at the government’s second AI White Paper, which called for Japan to become the “world’s most AI-friendly country.” It further asserted that as the world enters a period of flux – more dynamic in all aspects of technology, services, utilization, and regulation – nations with the best “understanding of AI and the easiest implementation of AI” are likely to prosper. For the Japanese government, this entails strengthening competitiveness, maximizing profits, and minimizing risks.
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BGF contributed the 2023 report “The Shinzo Abe Initiative 2nd Conference
Japan’s Prominence in the New Age of Global Enlightenment”: https://bostonglobalforum.org/reports/the-shinzo-abe-initiative-2nd-conference-japans-prominence-in-the-new-age-of-global-enlightenment-3/
