Japanese Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Kishida and Altman exchanged views on technological advances and the advantages of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT, developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, has raised privacy concerns, prompting Italy to temporarily ban the chatbot.

Japan's minister in charge of digital transformation, Taro Kono, said he hoped AI technologies would "substantially" reform the way the government operates. But he said it would be difficult to introduce Chat GPT in public offices soon due to problems such as "hallucinations"