The Digital Agency has added an artificial intelligence agent function capable of autonomously performing two or more tasks simultaneously to its Gennai generative AI platform, which is available to about 180,000 government employees.

The agent can perform a series of tasks based only on a single direction, including preparing and summarizing meeting minutes and sharing them within departments. The agency said it is the first time in the world that a government body has prepared an environment enabling the use of an AI agent at this scale.

Gennai features about 40 applications, including for tasks such as chatting with colleagues, preparing documents and meeting minutes, translating and summarizing documents, searching for past parliamentary statements, researching laws and regulations, and transcribing audio files.

Previously, users had to enter separate prompts for each task.…