When Artificial Intelligence Fails: Chinese Driver Fined for Scratching His Face!
Scary aspects of artificial intelligence and intrusion of privacy were highlighted recently in China when a driver in Shandong province received a fine after a traffic camera using artificial intelligence captured him scratching his face!
The next thing he knew, he'd received a notification instructing him that he had violated the laws of the road for "driving while holding a phone!" A surveillance picture of his "offence" was attached. He was told that he would receive two points on his licence and was also ordered to pay a 50 yuan ($7.25) fine.
The city's traffic authority ended up cancelling the ticket, but many Chinese bloggers joked about the case and some voiced their concerns about the level of surveillance placed on them in China.
There are more than 170 million surveillance cameras, many fitted with artificial intelligence including facial recognition technology, and the country has plans to install a further 400 million by 2020.
Recently a horrifying New York Times investigation offered a rare look at a surveillance system that now peers into nearly every corner of Xinjiang, the restive Muslim region in China.
The article called this is the vision of high-tech surveillance — precise, all-seeing, infallible: "China’s leaders are investing billions of dollars in every year, making Xinjiang an incubator for increasingly intrusive policing systems that could spread across the country and beyond."
The system taps into networks of neighborhood informants; tracks individuals and analyzes their behavior; tries to anticipate potential crime, protest or violence; and then recommends which security forces to deploy, the company said.
It is a virtual cage that complements the indoctrination camps in Xinjiang where the authorities have detained a million or more Uighurs and other Muslims in a push to transform them into secular citizens who will never challenge the ruling Communist Party. The program helps identify people to be sent to the camps or investigated, and keeps tabs on them when they are released.
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