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Interim Report of the AI Strategic Council and AI Institutional Study Group

中間とりまとめ

Record JP-17

Issued by
AI Strategic Council; AI Institutional Study Group
Jurisdiction
Japan
Level · region
National · East Asia
Published / adopted
2025-02-04
Language
Japanese

Summary

Interim report of the AI Strategic Council and its AI Institutional Study Group on Japan's AI regime, aiming to promote innovation while responding to risks. It relies mainly on existing laws plus guidelines and recommends a statutory basis for a stronger government command function and an AI strategy (basic plan); government guidelines in line with the Hiroshima AI Process for transparency and appropriateness across the AI lifecycle; promotion of safety evaluation and certification; government fact-finding on serious incidents with guidance and advice to businesses; and AI-specific procurement guidelines. Risks to life and safety and systemic risks stay with sector ministries for now.

Language

English translation by AI Strategic Council / AI Institutional Study Group (provisional translation on the Cabinet Office site) Open it. The Japanese text is authoritative.

Safety topics

incident reportingtransparency & labellingevaluation & testingpublic-sector usenational security & military

Status notes

The AI Institutional Study Group was set up in July 2024 under the AI Strategic Council, which sits under the Integrated Innovation Strategy Promotion Council chaired by the Chief Cabinet Secretary with all ministers as members. It met seven times, heard 15 researchers, businesses and others, and held a public comment before the report. The report asks that the government's guidelines and fact-finding rest on law so that businesses, including foreign ones, can be asked to cooperate, and leaves national security risks such as CBRN development and cyberattacks to the ministries concerned. The Act on Promotion of Research and Development, and Utilization of Artificial Intelligence-related Technology (Act No. 53 of 2025) followed in 2025.

Sources

Open the official source https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/interim_report.pdf

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:46:14 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14/C023/2026-10-14/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-14 13:11:46 UTC
SHA-256 4d4e73801254a9eb2e59c1e7922031ef827a937a7e484ace965ebe33dd515e22

Verification

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The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored and read: the Japanese report on the Cabinet Office site (www8.cao.go.jp; 25 pages, cover '中間 とりまとめ', '2025 年２月４日', 'AI 戦略会議・AI 制度研究会'; copy of 14 Oct 2026, unchanged on 18 Oct 2026) and its English provisional translation on the same site (26 pages, 'Interim Report', 'February 4, 2025', 'AI Strategic Council / AI Institutional Study Group', '※当翻訳は仮訳であり、正確には原文を参照してください。'; copy of 18 Oct 2026). They confirm the title, the Japanese title, the date, the bodies and their set-up, the process (seven meetings, 15 hearings, public comment), the recommendations in the summary and the points in the notes; the summary is written from the Japanese text. The English title is the record's rendering of the translation's cover ('Interim Report') with the bodies it names. The sentence in notes on the AI Promotion Act rests on record JP-04, not on this record's stored files; its title now follows JP-04.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 6 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18notes: The AI Institutional Study Group was set up in July 2024 under the AI Strategic → The AI Institutional Study Group was set up in July 2024 under the AI Strategic — the Act's title now follows record JP-04 ('Artificial Intelligence-related Technology' for 'AI-related Technology'); the rest is confirmed against the Japanese text2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-14Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14, candidate C023 (JP/executive)2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

AI Strategic Council; AI Institutional Study Group. Interim Report of the AI Strategic Council and AI Institutional Study Group. 2025-02-04. https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/interim_report.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14/C023/2026-10-14/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-14 13:11:46 UTC, SHA-256 4d4e73801254a9eb2e59c1e7922031ef827a937a7e484ace965ebe33dd515e22. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record JP-17.

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