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日本語(JA) 樺島万里子 Mariko Kabashima@海外ニュース翻訳情報局さん: 「続き)ただ、国政政党の党首らが首相官邸で首相にAIの使い方を教え、その題材が「現政権の物価高対策の効果を数字で示すツール」だったという構図には、少し引っかかります。 そして、私がもっと怖いのはここから。 AIが出した数字を「こういう数字が欲し

Japanese politician warns against uncritical use of AI in policy-making

A Japanese politician, Mariko Kabashima, expressed concern about the potential misuse of AI in government policy-making. She highlighted a situation where political leaders were taught how to use AI at the Prime Minister's Official Residence, with the AI tool being used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the current administration's inflation countermeasures. Kabashima warned against accepting AI-generated figures as definitive conclusions without thorough verification of their premises and calculation methods, emphasizing that AI outputs should serve as starting points for discussion rather than final justifications for policy decisions. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for transparency and verification when using AI for governmental policy decisions.

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Japanese politician warns against uncritical use of AI in policy-making

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 日本語(JA) · [email protected] ·

    Mariko Kabashima @ Overseas News Translation Information Bureau: "Continued) However, I am a little bothered by the structure in which the leaders of national political parties taught the Prime Minister how to use AI at the Prime Minister's Official Residence, and the subject was a "tool to show the effectiveness of the current administration's price increase measures with numbers." And what scares me more is this. The numbers that AI produced, "I wanted these numbers

    樺島万里子 Mariko Kabashima@海外ニュース翻訳情報局さん: 「続き)ただ、国政政党の党首らが首相官邸で首相にAIの使い方を教え、その題材が「現政権の物価高対策の効果を数字で示すツール」だったという構図には、少し引っかかります。 そして、私がもっと怖いのはここから。 AIが出した数字を「こういう数字が欲しかった」「かなり効果がある」と受け止め、その前提や計算方法を十分に検証しないまま、政策判断の根拠にしてしまうこと。 AIが出した数字は「結論」ではなく、検証すべき「たたき台」です。 とくに「自分が欲しかった数字」が出てきたときほど、疑って検…