{"id":176274,"date":"2026-01-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/president-lai-unveils-ai-goals-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:25:11","slug":"president-lai-unveils-ai-goals-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/president-lai-unveils-ai-goals-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lai unveils AI goals, plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2026\/01\/11\/2003850398\">President Lai unveils AI goals, plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2026\/01\/11\/2003850398\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2026\/01\/11\/2003850398<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-10 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government has announced a 10-year initiative to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and create an AI innovation system that integrates AI into everyday activities such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of educating 500,000 AI professionals by 2040 drives this initiative, and NT$100 billion will be invested in a venture capital fund to support this effort.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s impact on global production and lifestyle transformation has already brought about an industrial revolution, according to President Lai.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan\u2019s technology industry is poised to maintain its competitive edge in the future by focusing on AI applications rather than solely on hardware manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>The government plans to establish a national computing center and develop critical technologies like silicon photonics, quantum computing, and robotics.<\/li>\n<li>The ultimate aim is to construct a comprehensive AI innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and assist small and medium-sized enterprises in digital transformation.<\/li>\n<li>The government emphasizes the importance of a populace skilled in utilizing AI for enhancing national competitiveness, rolling out AI training for public sector employees and students.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborations between government, industry, and academia will be pivotal in leveraging AI for economic transformation and boosting small and medium-sized enterprises\u2019 competitiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Lai unveils AI goals, plans https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2026\/01\/11\/2003850398 Publish Date: 2026-01-10 11:00:00 Source Domain: www.taipeitimes.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/01\/11\/P01-260111-001.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176276,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176274\/revisions\/176276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}