Japan lacks workers to care for the elderly. This company is using AI to help

Japan lacks workers to care for the elderly. This company is using AI to help

Mikio Okumura, group CEO and president of Sompo Holdings Inc.

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Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies, says it’s using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country’s aging population.

AI and other technology can replace tasks normally performed by people while simultaneously improving nursing care services, Group CEO Mikio Okumura told CNBC’s “Managing Asia.”

He cited sleep…

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