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In response to a falling birth rate over the past 3 years, the Japanese government has allocated 2 billion yen to subsidize new and ongoing AI matchmaking throughout the country in 2021. The funds will be distributed to local authorities as part of a national effort to combat low birth rates. According to the BBC, the country’s population is projected to drop from a peak of 128 million in 2017 to less than 53 million over the next 80 years.
Officials believe the AI will match people on a deeper level than human matchmakers can, but Sachiko Horiguchi, a socio-cultural and medical anthropologist at Japan’s Temple University, believes the money would better help the birth rate problem if it went towards helping low-income earners. Horiguchi argues that if the population is not interested in dating in the first place, matchmaking systems will be ineffective. Avast Security Evangelist Luis Corrons agreed, commenting, “There are academics all around the world that have been studying the reasons for birth rate decreases in prosperous countries. None of them have blamed the lack of matchmaking abilities from human beings as the culprit of the situation. There are many cases where AI will be the answer, but it won’t make a difference if we’re asking the wrong questions.”
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