Company-wide Deployment of Generative AI and AI Ethics Governance
First written in FY2024. 2 of 3 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2025. Latest entry: FY2026.
4 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「Effective 1 April 2026, we newly established the position of Group CAIO (Chief AI Officer) to lead efforts across the Group to accelerate the use of AI in addressing customer challenges and internal operations.」
In addition to the enterprise-wide rollout of generative AI and the AI Ethics Committee, the Group established the CAIO position effective 1 April 2026, advancing its organizational structure to accelerate AI-driven transformation of business models, business processes and organizational culture under PX. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its AI technology strategy to accelerate the use of AI, the company is strengthening its initiatives in Scalable AI, which delivers AI rapidly to all customers, and Responsible AI, which earns the trust of all customers through technology development related to the reliability of AI.」
The enterprise-wide rollout of generative AI expanded from providing an AI assistant to approximately 90,000 domestic employees to a technology strategy built around Scalable AI and Responsible AI, as well as the AI Ethics Committee, AI Ethics Principles, risk checks and training for all employees. “Maximizing the use of responsible AI” was also added as a new foundational materiality. - FY2024First statedAnnual report
「Our Group has established an AI Ethics Committee, with representatives from the AI ethics functions of all operating companies as well as the legal, intellectual property, information security, quality and other departments, to identify the opportunities and threats associated with the expanding use of AI and take timely and appropriate measures across the Group. Beginning in February 2023, Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of ours, started providing all domestic employees with an AI assistant service it had developed based on Azure OpenAI Service. From April, the service was expanded to approximately 90,000 domestic employees across our Group, and full-scale use began.」
While establishing the AI Ethics Committee, AI Ethics Principles, risk-checking system and training for all employees, the company disclosed for the first time as an independent theme its initiative to roll out an AI assistant based on Azure OpenAI Service to approximately 90,000 domestic Group employees.