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Japan has announced emergency measures after a spate of personal-data breaches, including promoting AI to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems and forming specialist teams to help affected businesses respond.
Why it mattersThe teams are intended to provide initial assistance after cyberattacks. The measures were announced at a meeting of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and relevant ministers, Kyodo reports in the South China Morning Post. That makes this a concrete cybersecurity policy move, though the report gives no timetable or detail on how the AI checks will work.
Discuss: Should governments use AI to find vulnerabilities proactively, or put the priority on specialist human response teams?
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