China's Use of AI Surveillance Systems: Monitoring Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang - Harm Prevention and Trustworthy AI
October 1, 2016
The Chinese government deployed AI-powered surveillance technologies, including facial recognition and biometric data analysis, in Xinjiang to monitor Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- chinese-government
- Alleged developer
- chinese-government
- Alleged harmed parties
- uyghur-people, turkic-muslim-ethnic-groups
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/249
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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