AI Gennai automates multiple tasks, government grants “agent function”

The Digital Agency has installed an ``AI agent'' function that autonomously performs multiple tasks on the ``Gennai'' artificial intelligence (AI) platform used by approximately 180,000 government employees. You can perform multiple tasks with a single instruction, such as creating meeting minutes, summarizing them, and sharing them within your department. According to the agency, this is the first time in the world that a government agency has created an environment for the use of agents on this scale.

Gennai is equipped with approximately 40 types of apps, including chat, document/meeting minutes creation, translation, document summaries, Diet response searches, legal system research, and transcription. Until now, it was necessary to instruct each task one by one using instructions (prompts). In the case of an AI agent, by reading the audio of a meeting without having to type in instructions, it can automatically perform multiple necessary tasks such as creating meeting minutes and translating it.

It will also be possible for employees to share the experience and specialized knowledge they have acquired through an app called ``Skills.''

For example, when it comes to preparing ministers' responses, we will develop skills that incorporate the know-how of veteran officials, such as, ``This member of the Diet often asks questions that emphasize data.'' It will be published in the Gennai Library, which will be opened in the future, and will be made available to other employees regardless of their ministries and agencies.