AI & Enterprise
Japan to roll out AI agents for 180,000 civil servants to automate administrative work
Japan will expand the use of AI agents for about 180,000 government employees through its generative AI platform Gen-nai, aiming to boost the efficiency of administrative work. The Digital Agency will add two agent functions, including a chat tool that creates agents through conversation and a development environment targeted for rollout by December. It also released governance, security and safety standards and plans to publish Gen-nai OSS 2.0 in February 2027.