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AI could turn China’s social credit system into surveillance tool: government-funded study

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South China Morning Post – China
“AI could turn China’s social credit system into surveillance tool: government-funded study”

China’s social credit system, stereotypically imagined as an all-powerful numerical scoring project for authoritarian control, has gained notoriety in the West – although people inside the country actually feel little of its presence or practical influence. In a government-funded study, however, a Chinese legal scholar warned that deploying artificial intelligence (AI) risked turning the rating system into a “large-scale surveillance tool”. The paper was published in the Journal of Sichuan...

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