Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work
New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.
While this development in China isn't great, the American intelligence community has been funding efforts to do *exactly* the same thing over the last 15 years. Look up IARPA & Project Minerva https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
Why Export Controls on Chips Matter — In the last few days several disparate stories have highlighted the need for export controls and their effective implementation. …
This is where solutionism leads: — “A Chinese company has been trying to develop artificial intelligence-powered technology that would enable authoritarian governments to not just monitor dissidents but also potentially predict who could become one in the future” — www.nytime…