The emerging use of artificial intelligence-aided analysis in public school classrooms has raised alarm. Last June, the Globe and Mail reported on public fears of a new form of state surveillance over facial recognition cameras trained to recognize students’ emotion at a Hangzhou high...
After months of mounting scrutiny of American companies’ involvement with Chinese AI and surveillance technology, and particularly its deployment in Xinjiang, the spotlight has returned to...
Beijing is currently holding a forum for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has been beset with concerns over the potential use of debt traps, political and military influence, and the risk...
At The Financial Times on Friday, Yuan Yang and Madhumita Murgia offered an overview of facial recognition technology’s adoption in China, public reception, and widespread export: What do Uganda’s police force, a Mongolian...
Chinese state media reported last week that Beijing’s subway system will soon use facial recognition technology to classify and divide passengers into groups for different security screenings. The news was announced at the end...
Western institutions’ AI and surveillance research ties with China, particularly those with partners implicated in ongoing rights abuses in Xinjiang, have been coming under mounting scrutiny. This week, South China Morning...
The Trump administration is adding 28 Chinese entities including top AI companies and state...
Last year, leaked plans for “Project Dragonfly,” a China-focused Google search...
A stream of recent analysis and news coverage has continued to examine the development of advanced...
At Foreign Policy this week, Securing Democracy’s Lindsay Gorman and Matt Schrader described...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Earlier today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, billionaire George Soros proclaimed that...
At China’s recently held fifth annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, tech companies...
As the U.S. and China vie for technological superiority in fields like quantum physics, autonomous...
“From a technical point of view, we still lag behind developed countries such as the United...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Tencent removed and reprogrammed two chatbots named BabyQ and XiaoBing from the company’s QQ...
Facial recognition software is becoming ubiquitous in China as private companies partner with the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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