Students with their computers at School. File. Photo by PAUL MILLER / EPA
May 20 (Asia Today) -- Japan plans to revise elementary and middle school moral education courses to address ethical decision-making and responsibility in the age of generative artificial intelligence, according to reports Wednesday.
The proposed reforms would move beyond treating AI as simply a learning or technology tool and instead focus on questions of human judgment, accountability and responsible use.
Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported Tuesday that the Ministry of Education presented a proposal to a Central Council for Education panel outlining revisions to information ethics education in elementary and middle schools.
The ministry plans to include lessons on value judgments, responsibility and ways of living in the AI era in the next national curriculum guidelines, which are scheduled to take effect in fiscal year 2030. Japan revises its national curriculum standards roughly once every decade.
