(cont'd from yesterday's post)
China is quite open about surveillance. The government monitors almost everything people do on the internet or their phones, and local units are putting up hundreds of millions of cameras that use facial recognition artificial intelligence (AI).
Now totalitarian rulers have a new tool to use: "Data and social scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime . . ." Breakthrough! "The model can predict future crimes one week in advance with about 90% accuracy." How convenient.
Similarly, "Scientists at China’s Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei claim to have developed mind-reading artificial intelligence that measures the loyalty of Chinese Communist Party members."
Mind-reading algorithms? Crime predicting algorithms? What opportunity for abuse. "They will surely be used to falsely imprison political enemies . . to blackmail people for real or imagined misdeeds."
from Mind Matters
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