Japanese Government to Establish Organization Specialized in 'AI Risk Research' for Japanese Language

The Japanese government will establish an organization within a national research institute around April next year to study the risks associated with the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

According to local Japanese media on the 30th, the Japanese government plans to set up a specialized organization within the National Institute of Informatics (NII), which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, to prevent the spread of misinformation and copyright infringement caused by generative AI. The organization is expected to consist of about 20 members, including researchers of large language models (LLM).

The newly established research organization will study whether generative AI provides false information and what risks may arise depending on the training content. The research results are expected to be provided to AI development companies and universities.

Local media explained that while Microsoft does not disclose its technology in principle to maintain an advantage in the generative AI development competition, the Japanese government has started developing AI specialized in the Japanese language. They also added concerns that if the risks are not fully recognized and the project is pushed forward, a "poor-quality generative AI" could be created.

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