"CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION", a prizewinning(获奖的) science-fiction story published in 2019, is about a figure skater(花样滑冰运动员) who applies software-development methods(软件开发方法) and AI to optimise athletic performance. Its author, Anno Takahiro, a software engineer and serial AI entrepreneur, has since founded the hottest political startup in Japan: Team Future (Mirai), a techno-optimist(技术乐观主义者) outfit that broke through(突破；取得显著成功) in recent lower-house elections. Mr Anno hopes to bring the same engineering mindset(工程思维) to government.
《持续集成》是一部2019年出版的获奖科幻短篇小说，讲述了一位花样滑冰运动员将软件开发方法和人工智能应用于优化运动表现的故事。其作者安野贵广——一位软件工程师和连续人工智能创业者——此后创立了日本最火的政治初创公司：未来团队（Mirai），一个技术乐观主义团体，在最近的众议院选举中取得了突破。安野先生希望将同样的工程思维带入政府。
Mr Anno entered politics in 2024 with a quixotic(堂吉诃德式的，不切实际的) campaign for governor of Tokyo. He finished fifth but drew attention(引起注意) with his use of AI and social media to solicit(征求，索求) feedback from voters. Last year he founded Mirai and won a seat in the upper house. Earlier this year, Mirai picked up(获得，赢得) 11 seats in the lower house. While still small—the ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds 316 seats in the lower chamber—Mirai has become a new force(新力量) in Japanese politics. It is also one of the first political parties anywhere to run successfully on an explicitly AI-friendly agenda(支持人工智能的纲领).
安野先生于2024年以一场堂吉诃德式的竞选活动进入政坛，参选东京都知事。他获得第五名，但因其利用人工智能和社交媒体征求选民反馈而引人注目。去年他创立了Mirai，并在参议院赢得了一个席位。今年早些时候，Mirai在众议院获得了11个席位。虽然规模仍然很小——执政的自民党在众议院拥有316个席位——但Mirai已成为日本政坛的一股新力量。它也是全球最早成功以明确支持人工智能的纲领运行的政党之一。
For Mr Anno, AI offers the solution to Japan’s demographic(人口学的；人口结构的) challenges. With a shrinking, ageing population, the thinking goes(主流观点认为), Japan needs to automate more, faster. Mr Anno believes Japan has several advantages. Fears of an AI jobs apocalypse(就业末日，工作灾难) are less acute(尖锐的；严重的) than elsewhere, given labour shortages. Attitudes towards AI are relatively positive. When Japanese think of AI, many "see it as a partner", Mr Anno says: they think not of the Terminator, a rogue robot, but of Doraemon, a friendly robot helper in a Japanese anime series.
对于安野先生来说，人工智能为日本的人口挑战提供了解决方案。随着人口萎缩和老龄化，思路是日本需要更快、更多地实现自动化。安野先生认为日本有几大优势。由于劳动力短缺，对人工智能导致就业灾难的恐惧不如其他地区那么强烈。对人工智能的态度相对积极。当日本人想到人工智能时，许多人“将其视为伙伴”，安野先生说：他们想到的不是“终结者”——一个失控的机器人，而是哆啦A梦——日本动漫系列中一个友好的机器人助手。