The Panopticon Is Already Here: Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

The Atlantic ^ | August 4, 2020 | Ross Andersen

[C19fan]

Northwest of beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Near its center is the Institute of Automation, a sleek silvery-blue building surrounded by camera-studded poles. The institute is a basic research facility. Its computer scientists inquire into artificial intelligence’s fundamental mysteries. Their more practical innovations—iris recognition, cloud-based speech synthesis—are spun off to Chinese tech giants, AI start-ups, and, in some cases, the People’s Liberation Army.

[C19fan]

We live in this bizarro world half "1984" and half "Brave New World". The most disturbing thing are Americans who freely accept surveillance through Amazon Echos, those fancy doorbells, and connected appliances. For the life of me I do not know why someone would want some appliance connected the cyberspace.

[Red Badger]

The Forbin Project is here...................

[BuffaloJack]

“For the life of me I do not know why someone would want some appliance connected the cyberspace.”

I have a video surveillance system, but it has no internet access and all the cameras are ethernet and have their wifi systems disabled.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

For the life of me I do not know why someone would want some appliance connected the cyberspace.

They are easily influenced followers who are fearful of not keeping up with 'The Jones'.