The Chinese government wants to control its supporters. (associated press photo)
Halfway between dystopia and fantasy, a group of researchers from China’s National Center for Comprehensive Science supports the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) that can read people’s minds and measure the loyalty of citizens to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Beijing wants to find out whether party members they are receptive to ideologyand it also plans to provide real data in order to improve political education.
The main objective, although contradictory, points to increase the confidence of politicians to listen, follow and thank diplomacy.
According to the London Times, the National Center for Integral Science in Hefei indicates that said AI is based on the brain wave reading and facial expressions know the reaction of the subjects.
Artificial intelligence can read the minds of politicians. Photo; I Robot.
In this way, it could determine how willing the members of the Communist political movement in that country are receive the education provided.
This information came from an article accompanied by a video that was deleted from the center itself, according to the British newspaper.
From the center of Hefei, 43 Communist Party members were involved to test this AI, where users sit in front of a screen and watch articles showing the party’s achievements. The results will judge the members to know if accept political thinking.
Thought reading: similar cases
The Communist Party of China wants to control thinking. photo EFE.
Once again the Asian giant has been harshly questioned for having implemented technologies whose function could be to control the population, as in the case of the social credit system.
In 2021 it was discovered that he was behind a judicial AI, who allegedly acted as a prosecutor to accuse criminal suspects of more than 97% accuracy.
Some international media outlets point out that a senior government official also revealed that Beijing was using emerging biotechnology to try to develop military applications that included “gene editing, human performance enhancement and bionic interfaces”.
Last year, the US Department of Commerce sanctioned a number of Chinese institutions for aiding the development of biotechnology, including “suspected brain control weapons.”
The action highlights how private companies in China’s defense and surveillance technology sectors are actively cooperating with government efforts to crack down on members of ethnic and religious minorities.
The most recent case is that of Tiandy, which has been questioned for being an unethical tool. This artificial intelligence system used by the Chinese government to suppress the Uighur minority group in Xinjiang province, along with Huawei’s facial recognition software, artificial intelligence technologies for emotion detection and many more.
Surveillance is not limited to authoritarian states alone, and “safe and smart city” projects have found a niche in many democracies. However, techno-authoritarianism is likely to prove difficult to control.
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Source: Clarin
