What happened
On October 26, Team Mirai leader Takahiro Anno and others gave Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara a proposal on countering unemployment caused by AI, calling for surveys of how people are adapting to work changes and a system to ensure support reaches them.
Why it matters
The proposal also argues AI is changing how society itself works, not just some industries, and pairs labor policy with regulatory and institutional reform to support AI's rollout — signaling the debate is expanding beyond labor policy, it appears.
WHO IT HITSPolicymakers and labor ministry officials weighing how to measure and cushion AI-driven job disruption are the immediate audience, with the proposal also pushing regulatory and institutional reform that could affect how AI is deployed across industries.
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The proposal frames AI's spread in sweeping terms, saying it evokes memories of past industrial revolutions in changing not just some industries but the very way society operates. That framing underpins its two-track approach: labor policy measures on one side, and reform of the regulations and institutions that support AI's rollout on the other.
The delivery to Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara places the request at the government's door, and Team Mirai says it wants a survey of whether people are keeping up with work changes plus a mechanism to ensure support reaches those who need it. The party has also published a special site carrying the full text of the proposal, making the details public rather than limiting them to the handover.
This follows Team Mirai's separate emergency proposal submitted to the Digital Agency on the 23rd, which covered strengthening defenses through AI use, understanding the reality of attacks, and steps after information-leak damage occurs. Together the two submissions suggest the party is pressing the government on both the defensive and labor-market sides of AI adoption.
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