While the Irish administration has made the existential decision – as outlined in their strategy documents on Artificial Intelligence – to trust in the Pig in a Poke that are the vagaries of the HR departments of the American tech corporations – more serious states are looking at AI as a potential means to address demographic concerns.
Japan is attempting to deal with an alarming fall in replacement rate through births by launching a staggering plan to deploy ten million robots. Economy and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa stated that the plan was a means to address staff shortages even in low-skilled areas without having to open the doors to large numbers of immigrants.