Japan may adopt a looser set of rules to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) compared to the European Union.

Speaking to Reuters, an unnamed official said that the country wanted to use the technology to boost its economy and make it a market leader in advanced chips.

Japan is likely to implement rules closer to those of the US rather than the EU, which could hamper the EU’s attempt to establish its rules as a world standard, they said.

The government official did not tell Reuters how Japan’s guidelines on AI would be different from EU rules.

Under new measures, the EU could require companies to declare when they use copyrighted material to train AI technologies.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton is visiting Tokyo this week to promote the EU’s approach to drawing up rules governing AI and further cooperation in semiconductor technology, according to Reuters.

Several organisations have recently raised concerns about the use of AI and large language models, including the Personal Information Protection Commission, Japan’s privacy watchdog, which told OpenAI not to gather sensitive data from users of ChatGPT without its permission.

The commission said that OpenAI should limit the amount of information it collects for machine learning, adding that it may make take action if it has further concerns.

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