{"id":551996,"date":"2026-07-16T03:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:09:22","slug":"treacy-japan-to-use-ai-robotics-rather-than-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551996\/","title":{"rendered":"TREACY: Japan to use AI robotics rather than immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Irish administration has made the existential decision \u2013 as outlined in their strategy documents on Artificial Intelligence \u2013 to trust in the Pig in a Poke that are the vagaries of the HR departments of the American tech corporations \u2013 more serious states are looking at AI as a potential means to address demographic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is attempting to deal with an alarming fall in replacement rate through births by launching a staggering plan to deploy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/japan-reveals-new-noetra-plan-to-flood-the-country-with-10-million-robots-by-2040-including-work-in-the-nursing-food-and-drink-sectors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ten million robots<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Irish administration has made the existential decision \u2013 as outlined in their strategy documents on Artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,233591,218,219,61,1629,60,582,20168,80],"class_list":["post-551996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-robotics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}