Whether you love or hate it, artificial intelligence is here to stay.
The question is — particularly in Japan, which is facing a severely aging population and shrinking of its workforce — will AI perform tasks that are beneficial to society as a whole?
AI has seen phenomenal success with a variety of tasks, such as performing facial recognition and piloting autonomous vehicles, but there are obvious concerns about the negative impacts of the technology on society, such as people losing their jobs to automation, as well as the dangers of new-generation weapons.