JapanAct on Promotion of Research and Development, and Utilization of Artificial Intelligence-related Technology (AI Promotion Act)
In force since .
An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- A utilization business operator (any person developing, providing, or using AI-related technology in its business activities) is to endeavor to enhance the efficiency and advancement of its business activities and to create new industries through the active use of AI-related technology, in accordance with the Act's basic principles.
- A utilization business operator must cooperate with the AI-promotion measures the national government carries out under Article 4 and a local government carries out under Article 5.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- GOVERN 1.1Legal and regulatory requirements involving AI are understood, managed, and documented.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
What it makes you log
Logging duty
A basic promotion act. Its only duty on a business that uses AI is in Article 7, to cooperate with national and local government measures; Articles 11 to 17 describe what the national government will do, and Article 16 has the government collect information and give guidance rather than require anyone to keep a record. No article states a duty to create, keep or produce a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Act establishes an AI Strategic Headquarters within the Cabinet and requires the government to adopt an AI Basic Plan (Chapters III and IV), and states the national government's, local governments', research institutes', and AI-utilization business operators' basic responsibilities toward AI research, development, and use (Chapter I).
Article 7 asks a utilization business operator only to endeavor to make active use of AI in its business activities and to cooperate with the government's AI-promotion measures; the Act creates no disclosure, labelling, risk-management, or human-oversight duty running to a person affected by an AI system, and its text carries no penal-provisions chapter, so a breach of Article 7 carries no stated sanction.
When LexLint raises it
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