A look inside Shanghai’s AI-powered social credit surveillance “Urban Brain” system

[mountaineer]

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A chilling look inside Shanghai’s AI-powered surveillance “Urban Brain” system — the blueprint for the social credit grid spreading across China… and soon, the West.

In Pudong, a single control room can monitor every resident in real time:

• Every building mapped
• Every vacancy tracked
• Every elderly person living alone logged
• Every movement recorded
• Every behaviour scored
And it gets worse.

Trash not sorted correctly?
Cameras catch you from three angles. ...

https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1989983450636435560

[mountaineer]

In China, tens of thousands young people are becoming homeless because they are nlacklisted by Social Credit System.

https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1990190280910549342

[mountaineer]

Tens of thousands of young people are becoming homeless because they are Blacklisted by Social Credit System.  No bank access, no digital payments, no ability to rent a home or even find a job.

https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1995900368316719106

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