‘Social Order Could Collapse’ in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say
Telecommunications company NTT and leading newspaper Yomiuri to issue manifesto calling for new laws to restrain generative AI
TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, or NTT, and Yomiuri Shimbun Group Holdings made the proposal in an AI manifesto to be released Monday. Combined with a law passed in March by the European Parliament restricting some uses of AI, the manifesto points to rising concern among American allies
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