ai-policy

The Digital Deficit and the 'Year of the AI Agent' — Three Structural Biases Settling in the Draft Phase of Japan's Digital Society Vision Council

The 11th meeting (December 2025) and 12th meeting (May 2026) of Japan's Digital Society Vision Council form the draft phase of the next Priority Plan for the Realization of a Digital Society. ISVD reads three structural biases solidifying in this phase: (a) the one-directional nature of the "deficit" indicator, (b) the framing of AI as competitiveness, (c) the narrowness of decision-making channels.