Host: The Society of Socio-Informatics
Pages 9-14
This study aimed to procure an understanding of changes over time in societal attitudes pertaining to artificial intelligence based on material from the "Yomiuri Shimbun," the "Asahi Shimbun" and the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" newspapers. There exists no initial point at which occurred a "boom" in the presence of artificial intelligence within the awareness of Japanese society. Further, looking at the number of newspaper articles on the subject shows the magnitude of the current tertiary boom to be higher than that of the secondary boom in the 1980s. Correspondence analysis of the content of the newspaper articles showed the emergence of characteristic terminology in each of these eras. However, it is not the case that the discussions occurring in the tertiary boom are completely new. The occurrence of similar discourse was also confirmed in the secondary boom.
