China Using AI to Track, ID People & Bring Control
In China, which has an estimated 200 million surveillance cameras already in use, some cities are using facial recognition and AI technology to track and identify criminals and in some cases to shame people for law infractions, according to an article in The New York Times.
According to the Times, China is building an authoritarian future in which a police officer scanned a crowd with facial recognition glasses at a Zhengzhou train station and spotted a heroin smuggler, AI cameras assisted police capture two dozen criminal suspects at a beer festival in Qingdao, and fugitives are identified as they shop.