TOKYO: With a ponytail, an indigo suit and a black T-shirt covered in lines of computer code, Takahiro Anno stands out in the button-down halls of Japan’s government.
Anno, 35, a software engineer and lawmaker, leads Team Mirai, a political party founded by techies that showed surprising strength this month in national elections. The party came from nowhere to win an eye-popping 11 seats in the lower house of Japan’s parliament by promoting government chatbots, self-driving buses and other Promethean new technologies.
“AI is like fire,” Anno, a member of Japan’s upper chamber, the House of Councilors, since last year, said in an interview recently at his office in Tokyo. “Everything will be changed.”
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