How Japan is putting AI in its cybernetic place
Much of the Western debate about artificial intelligence centers on the machine itself. Could it acquire goals of its own and escape human control? Japan’s Society 5.0 begins from a different premise.
- ▪Much of the Western debate about artificial intelligence centers on the machine itself.
- ▪Could it acquire goals of its own and escape human control?
- ▪Japan’s Society 5.0 begins from a different premise.
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Much of the Western debate about artificial intelligence centers on the machine itself. Will AI become conscious? Will it surpass human intelligence? Could it acquire goals of its own and escape human control? Japan’s Society 5.0 begins from a different premise. Rather than imagining AI as an autonomous mind, it places AI inside a larger social and technological system. Sensors collect information from the physical world; digital networks carry that information into cyberspace; AI analyzes it; and the resulting knowledge is returned to people, organizations, machines and public services. Intelligence resides less in a single machine than in the circulation of information through the system as a whole. In this respect, Society 5.0 is best understood as a cybernetic vision of society.
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