Artificial Intelligence Industry In China

The expert system industry in individuals’s Republic of China is a quickly establishing multi-billion dollar market. The roots of China’s AI advancement started in the late 1970s following Deng Xiaoping’s financial reforms highlighting science and technology as the nation’s primary efficient force.

The preliminary phases of China’s AI development were slow and encountered substantial difficulties due to absence of resources and skill. At the beginning China was behind most Western countries in regards to AI advancement. A majority of the research was led by researchers who had received college abroad. [1]

Since 2006, the federal government of individuals’s Republic of China has actually gradually developed a nationwide agenda for expert system development and became among the leading countries in expert system research study and development. [2] In 2016, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its thirteenth five-year plan in which it aimed to end up being a global AI leader by 2030. [3]

The State Council has a list of “nationwide AI groups” including fifteen China-based business, consisting of Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, SenseTime, and iFlytek. [citation required] Each company needs to lead the advancement of a designated specialized AI sector in China, such as facial acknowledgment, software/hardware, and speech recognition. China’s rapid AI advancement has considerably impacted Chinese society in numerous locations, consisting of the socio-economic, military, and political spheres. Agriculture, transport, accommodation and food services, and manufacturing are the top markets that would be the most impacted by further AI release.

The private sector, university labs, and the military are working collaboratively in lots of aspects as there are few current existing borders. [4] In 2021, China published the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China, its very first national law attending to AI-related ethical issues. In October 2022, the United States federal government announced a series of export controls and trade restrictions intended to limit China’s access to sophisticated computer system chips for AI applications. [5] [6]

Concerns have actually been raised about the results of the Chinese government’s censorship regime on the advancement of generative expert system and talent acquisition with state of the nation’s demographics. [7] [8]

History

The research and advancement of expert system in China started in the 1980s, with the announcement by Deng Xiaoping of the importance of science and innovation for China’s financial development. [3]

Late 1970s to early 2010s

Expert system research study and development did not begin till the late 1970s after Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms. [3] While there was an absence of AI-related research study between the 1950s and 1960s, some scholars believe this is because of the impact of cybernetics from the Soviet Union in spite of the Sino-Soviet split throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s. [9] In the 1980s, a group of Chinese scientists introduced AI research led by Qian Xuesen and Wu Wenjun. [9] However, during the time, China’s society still had a normally conservative view towards AI. [9] Early AI development in China was hard so China’s government approached these difficulties by sending out Chinese scholars overseas to study AI and further providing federal government funds for research study jobs. The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) was founded in September 1981 and was licensed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. [10] The very first chairman of the executive committee was Qin Yuanxun, who received a PhD in viewpoint from Harvard University. [citation required] In 1987, China’s first research publication on artificial intelligence was released by Tsinghua University. Beginning in 1993, clever automation and intelligence have belonged to China’s nationwide technology plan. [9]

Since the 2000s, the Chinese federal government has even more expanded its research and development funds for AI and the variety of government-sponsored research study jobs has actually considerably increased. [3] In 2006, China revealed a policy top priority for the advancement of artificial intelligence, which was consisted of in the National Medium and Long Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006-2020), released by the State Council. [2] In the very same year, synthetic intelligence was also mentioned in the l lth five-year strategy. [11]

In 2011, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) developed a branch in Beijing, China. [12] At very same year, the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award was founded in honor of Chinese mathematician Wu Wenjun, and it ended up being the highest award for Chinese achievements in the field of synthetic intelligence. The first award ceremony was hung on May 14, 2012. [13] In 2013, the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) was kept in Beijing, marking the very first time the conference was held in China. This occasion accompanied the Chinese federal government’s statement of the “Chinese Intelligence Year,” a substantial milestone in China’s advancement of synthetic intelligence. [12]

Late 2010s to early 2020s

The State Council of China provided “A Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” (State Council Document [2017] No. 35) on 20 July 2017. In the file, the CCP Central Committee and the State Council urged governing bodies in China to promote the advancement of synthetic intelligence. Specifically, the strategy described AI as a strategic innovation that has actually ended up being a “focus of international competition”. [14]:2 The file urged considerable investment in a variety of tactical locations associated with AI and called for close cooperation between the state and economic sectors. On the event of CCP basic secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the first plenary meeting of the Central Military-Civil Fusion Development Committee (CMCFDC), scholars from the National Defense University composed in the PLA Daily that the “transferability of social resources” in between economic and military ends is an essential component to being a terrific power. [15] During the Two Sessions 2017,”expert system plus” was proposed to be raised to a tactical level. [16] The exact same year witnessed the development of numerous application-level uses in the medical field according to reports. [17] Furthermore, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed their AI processor chip research study lab in Nanjing, and introduced their first AI expertise chip, Cambrian. [citation required]

In 2018, Xinhua News Agency, in collaboration with Tencent’s subsidiary Sogou, released its very first synthetic intelligence-generated news anchor. [18] [19] [20]

In 2018, the State Council budgeted $2.1 billion for an AI commercial park in Mentougou district. [21] In order to attain this the State Council specified the need for massive talent acquisition, theoretical and practical advancements, as well as public and private financial investments. [14] A few of the stated motivations that the State Council offered for pursuing its AI technique consist of the potential of expert system for commercial transformation, better social governance and maintaining social stability. [14] As of the end of 2020, Shanghai’s Pudong District had 600 AI business throughout foundational, technical, and application layers, with related industries valued at around 91 billion yuan. [22]

In 2019, the application of artificial intelligence expanded to different fields such as quantum physics, geography, and medical research. With the emergence of large language models (LLMs), at the start of 2020, Chinese researchers began developing their own LLMs. One such example is the multimodal large design called ‘Zidongtaichu.’ [23]

The Beijing Academy of Expert system released China’s very first large scale pre-trained language design in 2022. [24] [25]:283

In November 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Public Security jointly released the policies concerning deepfakes, which ended up being reliable in January 2023. [26]

In July 2023, Huawei released its variation 3.0 of its Pangu LLM. [27]

In July 2023, China launched its Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services. [28]:96 A draft proposal on fundamental generative AI services safety requirements, including specs for information collection and model training was provided in October 2023. [28]:96

Also in October 2023, the Chinese government released its Global AI Governance Initiative, which frames its AI policy as part of a Community of Common Destiny and intends to construct AI policy discussion with establishing nations. [29] [28]:93 The Initiative has actually expressed issue over AI safety threats, including abuse of data or using AI by terrorists. [28]:93

In 2024, Spamouflage, an online disinformation and propaganda campaign of the Ministry of Public Security, began using news anchors developed with generative synthetic intelligence to provide fake news clips. [18]

In March 2024, Premier Li Qiang launched the AI+ Initiative, which plans to incorporate AI into China’s real economy. [28]:95

In May 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China revealed that it rolled out a large language model trained on Xi Jinping Thought. [30]

According to the 2024 report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Baidu AI Cloud holds China’s biggest LLM market share with 19.9 percent and US$ 49 million in earnings over the in 2015. This was followed by SenseTime, with 16 percent market share, and by Zhipu AI, as the third largest. The fourth and fifth largest were Baichuan and the Hong-Kong noted AI company 4Paradigm respectively. [31] Baichuan, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI and MiniMax were applauded by investors as China’s new “AI Tigers”. [32] In April 2024, 117 generative AI designs had actually been approved by the Chinese federal government. [33]

Since 2024, many Chinese innovation companies such as Zhipu AI and Bytedance have actually released AI video-generation tools to rival OpenAI’s Sora. [34]

Chronology of significant AI-related policies

Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs

National Development and Reform Commission; Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Industry and Infotech

Government objectives

According to a February 2019 publication by the Center for a Brand-new American Security, CCP general secretary Xi Jinping – thinks that being at the leading edge of AI technology will be vital to the future of international military and economic power competition. [35] By 2025, the State aims for China to make essential contributions to standard AI theory and to solidify its location as a global leader in AI research. Further, the State Council intends for AI to become “the primary driving force for China’s industrial updating and financial improvement” by this time. [14] By 2030, the State Council aims to have China be the worldwide leader in the advancement of synthetic intelligence theory and innovation. The State Council declares that China will have established a “fully grown new-generation AI theory and technology system.” [14]

According to academics Karen M. Sutter and Zachary Arnold, the Chinese government “looks for to combine state planning and control while some functional versatility for companies. In this context, China’s AI companies are hybrid gamers. The state guides their activity, funds, and shields them from foreign competitors through domestic market defenses, producing uneven benefits as they expand offshore.” [36]

The CCP’s fourteenth five-year strategy declared AI as a top research study concern and ranks AI initially amongst “frontier industries” that the Chinese government aims to concentrate on through 2035. [3] The AI market is a strategic sector typically supported by China’s government assistance funds. [37]:167

Research and development

Chinese public AI funding mainly concentrated on advanced and applied research study. [38] The government financing likewise supported multiple AI R&D in the economic sector through venture capitals that are backed by the state. [38] Much analytic agency research study showed that, while China is enormously buying all aspects of AI advancement, facial recognition, biotechnology, quantum computing, medical intelligence, and autonomous vehicles are AI sectors with the most attention and funding. [39]

According to national guidance on developing China’s modern commercial advancement zones by the Ministry of Science and Technology, there are fourteen cities and one county picked as a speculative advancement zone. [40] Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces have the most AI development in speculative areas. However, the focus of AI R&D varied depending upon cities and local industrial advancement and ecosystem. For circumstances, Suzhou, a city with a longstanding strong manufacturing industry, heavily concentrates on automation and AI facilities while Wuhan focuses more on AI executions and the education sector. [40] In connection with universities, tech firms, and national ministries, Shenzhen and Hangzhou each co-founded generative AI laboratories. [25]:282

In 2016 and 2017, Chinese teams won the top reward at the Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, a worldwide competition for computer vision systems. [41] A lot of these systems are now being incorporated into China’s domestic security network. [42]

Interdisciplinary cooperations play a vital role in China’s AI R&D, consisting of academic-corporate partnership, public-private cooperations, and worldwide cooperations and projects with corporate-government collaborations are the most typical. [1] China ranked in the top three around the world following the United States and the European Union for the overall number of peer-reviewed AI publications that are produced under a corporate-academic partnership in between 2015 and 2019. [43] Besides, according to an AI index report, China surpassed the U.S. in 2020 in the overall number of international AI-related journal citations. [43] In regards to AI-related R&D, China-based peer-reviewed AI papers are mainly sponsored by the federal government. In May 2021, China’s Beijing Academy of Expert system released the world’s biggest pre-trained language model (WuDao). [44]

As of 2023, 47% of the world’s top AI scientists had finished their undergraduate research studies in China. [28]:101

According to scholastic Angela Huyue Zhang, publishing in 2024, while the Chinese government has actually been proactive in regulating AI services and imposing commitments on AI companies, the overall approach to its policy is loose and demonstrates a pro-growth policy beneficial to China’s AI industry. [28]:96 In July 2024, the government opened its very first algorithm registration center in Beijing. [45]

Population

China’s big population creates a huge quantity of accessible information for companies and researchers, which provides a crucial benefit in the race of big data. As of 2024 [upgrade], China has the world’s largest number of web users, generating substantial quantities of information for artificial intelligence and AI applications. [46]:18

Facial acknowledgment

Facial acknowledgment is one of the most widely employed AI applications in China. Collecting these large quantities of information from its locals assists further train and expand AI abilities. China’s market is not only favorable and important for corporations to additional AI R&D however likewise offers tremendous economic prospective drawing in both international and domestic companies to sign up with the AI market. The drastic development of the info and communication technology (ICT) industry and AI chipsets recently are two examples of this. [47] China has actually become the world’s largest exporter of facial recognition innovation, according to a January 2023 Wired report. [48]

Censorship and material controls

In April 2023, [49] the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released draft measures stating that tech companies will be obliged to guarantee AI-generated material maintains the ideology of the CCP consisting of Core Socialist Values, prevents discrimination, respects intellectual residential or commercial property rights, and safeguards user data. [50] [25]:278 Under these draft measures, business bear legal responsibility for training information and content generated through their platforms. [25]:278 In October 2023, the Chinese government mandated that generative synthetic intelligence-produced material might not “prompt subversion of state power or the toppling of the socialist system.” [51] Before releasing a big language design to the general public, companies must look for approval from the CAC to certify that the design refuses to answer particular questions relating to political ideology and criticism of the CCP. [8] [52] Questions connected to politically sensitive subjects such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre or contrasts between Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh should be declined. [52]

In 2023, in-country gain access to was blocked to Hugging Face, a business that preserves libraries consisting of training data sets commonly utilized for big language designs. [8] A subsidiary of individuals’s Daily, the official paper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, supplies local business with training data that CCP leaders think about permissible. [8] In 2024, the People’s Daily launched a LLM-based tool called Easy Write. [53]

Microsoft has actually alerted that the Chinese federal government uses generative synthetic intelligence to interfere in foreign elections by spreading out disinformation and provoking conversations on dissentious political problems. [54] [55] [56]

The Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek has been reported to refuse to respond to concerns relating to features of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, persecution of Uyghurs, comparisons in between Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh or human rights in China. [57] [58] [59]

Impact

Economic impact

Most companies [who?] hold positive views about AI‘s economic effect on China’s long-lasting economic growth. In the past, standard industries in China have actually dealt with the increase in labor costs due to the growing aging population in China and the low birth rate. With the implementation of AI, functional costs are anticipated to reduce while an increase in effectiveness produces profits growth. [60] Some highlight the significance of a clear policy and governmental support in order to overcome adoption barriers consisting of costs and lack of properly trained technical talents and AI awareness. [61] However, there are concerns about China’s deepening income inequality and the ever-expanding imbalanced labor market in China. Low- and medium-income employees might be the most adversely impacted by China’s AI development due to the fact that of rising needs for workers with sophisticated skills. [61] Furthermore, China’s economic development might be disproportionately divided as a majority of AI-related industrial development is focused in seaside areas rather than inland. [61]

A prominent choice by the Beijing Internet Court has actually ruled that AI-generated material is entitled to copyright defense. [28]:98

Military impact

China seeks to develop a “first-rate” military by “intelligentization” with a specific focus on using unmanned weapons and synthetic intelligence. [62] [63] It is researching numerous types of air, land, sea, and undersea autonomous automobiles. In the spring of 2017, a civilian Chinese university with ties to the military showed an AI-enabled swarm of 1,000 uninhabited aerial automobiles at an airshow. A media report launched later on revealed a computer simulation of a similar swarm development finding and destroying a missile launcher. [4]:23 Open-source publications indicated that China is also establishing a suite of AI tools for cyber operations. [64] [4]:27 Chinese development of military AI is mainly influenced by China’s observation of U.S. prepare for defense development and worries of a widening “generational gap” in contrast to the U.S. armed force. Similar to U.S. military principles, China intends to use AI for making use of big troves of intelligence, creating a common operating picture, and speeding up battleground decision-making. [64] [4]:12 -14 The Chinese Multi-Domain Precision Warfare (MDPW) is thought about China’s response to the U.S. Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) technique, which seeks to integrate sensors and weapons with AI and an energetic network. [65] [66]

Twelve categories of military applications of AI have been recognized: UAVs, USVs, UUVs, UGVs, intelligent munitions, intelligent satellites, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) software, automated cyber defense software, automated cyberattack software application, choice assistance, software application, automated missile launch software application, and cognitive electronic warfare software application. [67]

China’s management of its AI community contrasts with that of the United States. [4]:6 In general, few boundaries exist between Chinese industrial companies, university lab, the military, and the main government. As a result, the Chinese government has a direct means of guiding AI development top priorities and accessing innovation that was seemingly developed for civilian purposes. To further enhance these ties the Chinese federal government developed a Military-Civil Fusion Development Commission which is meant to speed the transfer of AI innovation from commercial companies and research study organizations to the military in January 2017. [2] [4]:19 In addition, the Chinese government is leveraging both lower barriers to information collection and lower expenses of information identifying to develop the large databases on which AI systems train. [68] According to one estimate, China is on track to have 20% of the world’s share of information by 2020, with the possible to have over 30% by 2030. [64] [4]:12

China’s centrally directed effort is purchasing the U.S. AI market, in business dealing with militarily pertinent AI applications, potentially approving it lawful access to U.S. innovation and copyright. [69] Chinese equity capital financial investment in U.S. AI companies between 2010 and 2017 amounted to an approximated $1.3 billion. [70] [64] In September 2022, the U.S. Biden administration released an executive order to prevent foreign financial investments, “particularly those from rival or adversarial countries,” from buying U.S. innovation companies, due to U.S. nationwide security concerns. [71] [72] The order covers fields of U.S. technologies in which Chinese government has actually been investing, consisting of “microelectronics, synthetic intelligence, biotechnology and biomanufacturing, quantum computing, [and] sophisticated tidy energy.” [71] [72]

In 2024, researchers from individuals’s Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences were reported to have developed a military tool using Llama, which Meta Platforms said was unauthorized due to its model usage restriction for military functions. [73] [74]

Academia

Although in 2004, Peking University presented the very first academic course on AI which led other Chinese universities to adopt AI as a discipline, particularly given that China deals with difficulties in recruiting and retaining AI engineers and scientists. [21] Over half of the information scientists in the United States have been working in the field for over 10 years, while approximately the exact same percentage of data researchers in China have less than 5 years of experience. Since 2017, fewer than 30 Chinese Universities produce AI-focused specialists and research study products. [61]:8 Although China went beyond the United States in the variety of research study documents produced from 2011 to 2015, the quality of its published documents, as judged by peer citations, ranked 34th worldwide. [75] China especially desire to address military applications therefore the Beijing Institute of Technology, among China’s premier institutes for weapons research study, recently developed the first kids’s curriculum in military AI on the planet. [76]

In 2019, 34% of Chinese trainees studying in the AI field remained in China for work. [77] According to a database maintained by an American thinktank, the portion increased to 58% in 2022. [77]

Ethical concerns

For the previous years, there are conversations about AI safety and ethical issues in both personal and public sectors. In 2021, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology published the very first nationwide ethical guideline, ‘the New Generation of Expert System Ethics Code’ on the topic of AI with particular focus on user protection, data privacy, and security. [78] This document acknowledges the power of AI and fast technology adjustment by the huge corporations for user engagements. The South China Morning Post reported that humans will stay completely decision-making power and rights to opt-in/-out. [78] Before this, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released the Beijing AI concepts requiring necessary requirements in long-term research and preparation of AI ethical concepts. [79]

Data security has been the most typical subject in AI ethical conversation worldwide, and lots of national federal governments have actually developed legislation resolving information personal privacy and security. The Cybersecurity Law of individuals’s Republic of China was enacted in 2017 aiming to address brand-new difficulties raised by AI development. [80] [original research study?] In 2021, China’s brand-new Data Security Law (DSL) was passed by the PRC congress, setting up a regulatory structure classifying all sort of information collection and storage in China. [81] This implies all tech business in China are required to classify their information into categories noted in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and follow specific standards on how to govern and deal with data transfers to other celebrations. [81]

Judicial system

In 2019, the city of Hangzhou developed a pilot program artificial intelligence-based Internet Court to adjudicate disputes related to ecommerce and internet-related intellectual residential or commercial property claims. [82]:124 Parties appear before the court through videoconference and AI evaluates the proof provided and uses relevant legal requirements. [82]:124

Because some controversial cases that drew public criticism for their low punishments have been withdrawn from China Judgments Online, there are concerns about whether AI based on fragmented judicial data can reach objective choices. [83] Zhang Linghan, teacher of law at the China University of Government and Law, composes that AI-technology business might wear down judicial power. [84] Some scholars argued that “increasing party management, political oversight, and reducing the discretionary space of judges are intentional goals of SCR [clever court reform]” [85]

Leading business

Leading AI-centric business and start-ups consist of Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, SenseTime, 4Paradigm and Yitu Technology. [86] Chinese AI companies iFlytek, SenseTime, Cloudwalk and DJI have gotten attention for facial recognition, sound recognition and drone innovations. [87]

China’s federal government takes a market-oriented approach to AI, and has looked for to encourage personal tech business in establishing AI. [25]:281 In 2018, it designated Baidu, Alibaba, iFlytek, Tencent, and SenseTime as “AI champs”. [25]:281

In 2023, Tencent debuted its large language design Hunyuan for business use on Tencent Cloud. [88]

New leading AI start-ups include Baichuan, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI and MiniMax which were applauded by investors as China’s new “AI Tigers” in 2024. [32] 01. AI has actually also been promoted as a leading startup. [89]

Assessment

Academic Jinghan Zeng argued the Chinese government’s dedication to global AI leadership and technological competition was driven by its previous underperformance in development which was seen by the CCP as a part of the century of humiliation. [90] According to Zeng, there are historically ingrained causes of China’s stress and anxiety towards protecting a worldwide technological dominance – China missed both commercial revolutions, the one starting in Britain in the mid-18th century, and the one that stemmed in America in the late-19th century. [90] Therefore, China’s federal government desires to benefit from the technological transformation in today’s world led by digital technology including AI to resume China’s “rightful” location and to pursue the national renewal proposed by Xi Jinping. [90]

An article published by the Center for a Brand-new American Security concluded that “Chinese government authorities demonstrated remarkably eager understanding of the issues surrounding AI and worldwide security. This consists of knowledge of the U.S. AI policy conversations,” and advised that “the U.S. policymaking neighborhood to similarly focus on cultivating know-how and understanding of AI advancements in China” and “financing, focus, and a willingness among U.S. policymakers to drive large-scale necessary change.” [35] An article in the MIT Technology Review similarly concluded: “China may have unequaled resources and enormous untapped potential, however the West has world-leading proficiency and a strong research culture. Instead of stress about China’s progress, it would be sensible for Western countries to concentrate on their existing strengths, investing heavily in research and education. ” [91]

The Chinese government’s censorship program has stunted the development of generative synthetic intelligence [7] [8]

In a 2021 text, the Research Centre for a Holistic Approach to National Security at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations composed that the development of AI produces difficulties for holistic nationwide security, including the threats that AI will heighten social tensions or have destabilizing impacts on global relations. [28]:49

Writing from a Chinese Marxist view, academics including Gao Qiqi and Pan Enrong contend that capitalist application of AI will cause greater injustice of workers and more severe social issues. [28]:90 Gao mentions how the development of AI has increased the power of platform companies like Meta, Twitter, and Alphabet, leading to higher capital build-up and political power in fewer economic stars. [28]:90 According to Gao, the state should be the primary responsible actor in the location of generative AI (creating new content like music or video). [28]:92 Gao writes that military use of AI risks escalating military competitors in between nations and that the effect of AI in military matters will not be restricted to one nation however will have spillover impacts. [28]:91

Dialogues in between Chinese and Western AI experts about the existential threat from artificial intelligence have actually taken place. [92]

Public polling

The Chinese public is typically optimistic concerning AI. [25]:283 [28]:101 A 2021 study conducted throughout 28 countries found that 78% of the Chinese public believes the benefits of AI outweigh the risks, the greatest of any nation in the research study. [25]:283 In 2024, a survey of elite Chinese university students found that 80% agreed or strongly agreed that AI will do more excellent than harm for society, and 31% believed it should be managed by the federal government. [93]

Human rights

The widely used AI facial acknowledgment has actually raised issues. [94] According to The New York City Times, deployment of AI facial recognition innovation in the Xinjiang region to spot Uyghurs is “the very first known example of a government purposefully using expert system for racial profiling,” [95] which is stated to be “one of the most striking examples of digital authoritarianism.” [96] Researchers have actually found that in China, areas experiencing higher rates of discontent are associated with increased state acquisition of AI facial recognition technology, particularly by regional municipal cops departments. [97] [98]

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Further reading

Hannas, William C.; Chang, Huey-Meei, eds. (29 July 2022). Chinese Power and Expert System: Perspectives and Challenges (1st ed.). London: Routledge.