Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies
Oct 15, 2019•49 min•Ep. 60
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Episode description
The United States has blacklisted several Chinese AI companies working in facial recognition and surveillance. Why? What are these companies doing exactly, and how does this fit into the international politics of AI? We dig into these questions and attempt to do some live fact finding in this episode.
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Show Notes:
- 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in “re-education camps”
- Surge in Chinese research related to surveillance of Muslim minorities
- US AI Blacklist summary article from MIT Technology Review
- Hikvision
- iFlytek
- Megvii
- Yitu
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