China, which has caused controversy from time to time with the areas in which it uses artificial intelligence, has shared an announcement that attracts attention around the world today. China’s Hefei National Center for Comprehensive Science has started developing an artificial intelligence that ‘measures the quality’ and ‘solves problems’ of political party members’ activities, announced on social media
Although the details of artificial intelligence are not included in the shared announcement, this definition actually shows what artificial intelligence is basically developed for: Artificial intelligence will simply measure the loyalty of party members. The announcement made on Weibo was removed from the platform shortly after it was shared. However, before the sharing was removed, the contents of the video on the Internet Archive were recorded as text.
The text of the video in question, which was taken into the archive, contained the following statements:
“Ensuring the quality of party-member activities is turning into a coordination issue. This equipment is a kind of smart ideology that uses AI technology to extract and integrate facial expressions, EEG readings and skin conductivity, making it possible to detect the concentration, recognition and mastery levels of ideological and political education to better understand its effectiveness. It can provide real data for ideological and political education organizers so they can continue to improve their educational methods and enrich the content.”
Before the sharing was deleted, Chinese users began to express their reactions to the new technology. In many comments under the post, the idea of correcting the loyalty problem of existing party members with ideological training was described as ‘brainwashing with technology’. Many, of course, also referred to George Orwell’s 1984 novel.
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