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Shimpo, Fumio --- "The principal Japanese AI and robot strategy toward establishing basic principles" [2018] ELECD 1407; in Barfield, Woodrow; Pagallo, Ugo (eds), "Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 114

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence

Editor(s): Barfield, Woodrow; Pagallo, Ugo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786439048

Section: Chapter 5

Section Title: The principal Japanese AI and robot strategy toward establishing basic principles

Author(s): Shimpo, Fumio

Number of pages: 29

Abstract/Description:

This chapter focuses on the recent Japanese AI/Robot Strategy, Special Zones (Tokku) and research trend in Japan. The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing. If we fail to scrutinize the new information security countermeasures for the use of intelligent robots and artificially intelligent entities or if we fail to review the legal issues accompanying the spread of consumer electronics, robots equipped with AI, and cars that operate as highly automated vehicle systems, the types of security problems which have impacted the development of the Internet could arise again in other, new contexts that involve artificial intelligence. There is a fear that this danger will spread beyond the problems within `virtual spaces` (such as the Internet), and present threats which will dramatically raise the likelihood of physical danger resulting from the actions caused by AI. The possibility of an AI running out of control and posing a danger to humans has been noted as one of the potential threats posed by robots that are becoming more and more autonomous. When considering the new problems such as the recent AI issues, the Japanese strategy has been to set guidelines as an administrative guidance enacted by governmental agencies without amending the current law. Such an approach must be similar for each country in order to examine whether or not legal regulation is needed but the Japanese ‘Special Zone’ application cases would be helpful for considering to conduct trials of these technologically innovative issues.