Establishment of the Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI)

Summary

Japan's AI Safety Institute (J-AISI), launched on 14 February 2024 with its secretariat in the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) and designated by the Integrated Innovation Strategy 2024 as Japan's central institution for AI safety. It examines and promotes evaluation methods and standards for AI safety: it studies safety-related standards, check tools, countermeasures against disinformation, and AI and cybersecurity, examines AI test environments, supports the government with research and standard-setting, links industry, academia and national research institutes, and cooperates with counterpart bodies such as the UK and US AI Safety Institutes.

Safety topics

Status notes

Announced by Prime Minister Kishida at the AI Strategy Council on 21 December 2023 and launched on 14 February 2024. Its overview of 1 July 2026 describes it as a government-related organisation in which 12 ministries and agencies and 5 related organisations take part, with the secretariat in IPA, which falls under METI and the Digital Agency. Government policy on AI safety is discussed in a liaison council of the ministries whose secretariat is the Cabinet Office, and an AISI Steering Committee chaired by the Executive Director (Akiko Murakami, part-time) deliberates on its work. The second AI Basic Plan (14 Jul 2026) calls for strengthening AISI's technical evaluation and feeding its results into policy. AISI has no specific statutory basis in the AI Promotion Act.

Sources

Open the official source https://aisi.go.jp/about/

Secondary source: https://www.ipa.go.jp/pressrelease/2023/press20240214.html

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "jp-aisi-evaluation-redteaming-guides", "id": "JP-03"}, {"slug": "jp-a → [{"slug": "jp-aisi-evaluation-redteaming-guides", "id": "JP-03"}, {"slug": "jp-a — two-way link added: JP-04 link(s) to JP-012026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-14related: [{"slug": "jp-aisi-evaluation-redteaming-guides", "id": "JP-03"}, {"slug": "jp-a → [{"slug": "jp-aisi-evaluation-redteaming-guides", "id": "JP-03"}, {"slug": "jp-a — two-way link to JP-07, JP-08, JP-09, JP-10, JP-11 added in run 2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-142026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "authentic", "url": "https://aisi.go.jp/assets/pdf/20260708_AISI_en.pdf — The issuer publishes its own English overview deck (stored, document-1.pdf) next to the Japanese one, without a 'provisional translation' label.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14notes: Announced by Prime Minister Kishida at the AI Strategy Council on 21 Dec 2023; l → Announced by Prime Minister Kishida at the AI Strategy Council on 21 December 20 — Removed 'no reorganisation was found' (research language). Added the structure from the overview decks (pages 7 and 8). Kept the statements on the second AI Basic Plan and the AI Promotion Act, which rest on JP-06 and JP-04 (see verification.note).2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-14summary: Japan's AI Safety Institute, the central government body for AI safety. It devel → Japan's AI Safety Institute (J-AISI), launched on 14 February 2024 with its secr — 'Central government body' overstated the source: the About page says 中心的機関 ('central institution'), as J-AISI's English deck renders it, and the deck calls AISI a government-related organisation (政府関係機関) housed in IPA. 'Develops' became 'examines and promotes' (検討・推進). Added the launch date, the designation in the Integrated Innovation Strategy 2024 and the task list of the About page.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Government of Japan; established within the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA). Establishment of the Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI). 2024-02-14. https://aisi.go.jp/about/. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/JP-01/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:00:50 UTC, SHA-256 99232e114a408546737b857cbeac218de235522d2520b4776ab468f1a816f4fb. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record JP-01.

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