Database Points to China’s Growing Use of A.I. for Online Surveillance and Censorship

Database Points to China’s Growing Use of A.I. for Online Surveillance and Censorship

The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of censorship-related jobs in China between 2015 and 2022. But growing evidence also shows that human-powered censorship is being increasingly enhanced—if not yet replaced—by AI. Alex Colville at China Media Project reported this week on hundreds of gigabytes of data found on an unsecured Chinese server linked to Baidu, which shows how the government and tech gi…