The Japanese perspective of regulation, management, and governance of artificial intelligence

Fumio Shimpo

Chapter Chapter 6 in Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, pp 105-121 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter has five main aims. It (1) proposes new regulations for research and development, use, sale and supply of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and services in Japan; (2) recommends rules, i.e., harmonised standards, technical standards and requirements to act as ‘de facto mandatory standards’ in the sale and supply of services in this country; (3) suggests management system standards for planning, implementing, checking, and acting on them; (4) proposes a legal basis for disciplining these mechanisms, and (5) advocates for the ‘AI Supervisory Authority’, which will determine the regulation of AI in accordance with the ‘Japanese AI System Conformity Assessment Scheme’. In order to achieve this fivefold goal, the chapter stresses the shortcomings of every self-regulatory approach, which leaves compliance to voluntary initiatives and does not regulate through hard law. The overall aim of this chapter is to ‘optimise’ AI regulation in alignment with current and future trends of technology. The chapter proposes five ways in which the future of AI regulatory and governance policy in the research, development, and use of AI in Japan can be improved.

Keywords: AI Supervisory Authority; Conformity assessment system; Management system; Standard; Artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035316489
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