A chilling blend of direct interview, personal reflection, and science-not-so-fiction that’s required to conceive the origin and direction of China’s surveillance state.
Not just the technology itself but it’s especially unsettling implementation: “False positives—deeming someone a threat for innocuous behavior—would be encouraged, in order to boost the system’s built-in chilling effects, so that she’d turn her sharp eyes on her own behavior, to avoid the slightest appearance of dissent.“
It feels as though one is reading Orwell's 1984, while reading the real-world examples of how a government body is using the latest technologies to create a surveillance state.
The party’s ability to edit history and culture, by force, will become more sweeping and precise, as China’s AI improves.
Each time a person’s face is recognized, or her voice recorded, or her text messages intercepted, this information could be attached, instantly, to her government-ID number, police records, tax returns, property filings, and employment history. It could be cross-referenced with her medical records and DNA, of which the Chinese police boast they have the world’s largest collection.
The ultimate permanent record that we thought existed as a child, is disturbingly coming to fruition in an entirely different form.
The political systems that constrain a technology during its early development profoundly shape our shared global future.
All 3 of these quotes symbolize the sheer importance of understanding what is happening in China with their usage of Artificial Intelligence.
A chilling blend of direct interview, personal reflection, and science-not-so-fiction that’s required to conceive the origin and direction of China’s surveillance state.
Not just the technology itself but it’s especially unsettling implementation: “False positives—deeming someone a threat for innocuous behavior—would be encouraged, in order to boost the system’s built-in chilling effects, so that she’d turn her sharp eyes on her own behavior, to avoid the slightest appearance of dissent.“
It feels as though one is reading Orwell's 1984, while reading the real-world examples of how a government body is using the latest technologies to create a surveillance state.
The ultimate permanent record that we thought existed as a child, is disturbingly coming to fruition in an entirely different form.
All 3 of these quotes symbolize the sheer importance of understanding what is happening in China with their usage of Artificial Intelligence.