Microsoft Worked With Chinese Military University on AI (irishtimes.com) 40
Microsoft has been working with a Chinese military-run university on AI research that could be used for surveillance and censorship. From a report: Three papers, published between March and November last year, were co-written by academics at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing and researchers with affiliations to China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDR), which is controlled by China's top military body, the Central Military Commission. Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at the New America think-tank and a China tech policy expert, said the papers raised "red flags because of the nature of the technology, the author affiliations, combined with what we know about how this technology is being deployed in China right now." "The [Chinese]government is using these technologies to build surveillance systems and to detain minorities [in Xinjiang]," she added.
As the saying goes in China (Score:2, Funny)
"nobody ever got executed for buying Microsoft"
Wow, the Chinese collaborated with the Chinese (Score:3)
co-written by academics at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing and researchers with affiliations to China’s National University of Defense Technology
When it comes to AI and a growing number of other areas, the Chinese are no slouches. This is why MS has research groups in China. They are taking advantage of Chinese talent. It is likely that MS gained more knowledge about AI from China in this case than they did from us, though I don't know what firewalls China may have required between MS's research groups in China and those in the US. There may very well be export controls on what that group can transmit to the home company.
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Yeah, you must be right. Microsoft execs must not have any idea that this was going on. Microsoft involved in an oppressive foreign government's program of facial recognition which is already well known to be deployed against its own citizens. And, helping said government's military in programs that might compromise the national security of its rival, the United States, couldn't possibly be important enough to filter up to the executive level.
Bullshit. Microsoft just got caught doing what Google was cau
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As it is, Muellers team is already hinting that Barr's report was not accurate nor did it justice.
So, once the intelligence/Justice committees get the unredacted report, then we can talk about it.
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hinting
Yep, that's certainly the key word.
anybody surprised? (Score:3)
these assholes are simply handing over everything like GM, Ford, and Chrysler did.
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Has been (Score:2)
I think you meant to say "has been", not "could be".
How is this different than IBM working with Nazis? (Score:1)
I see little difference between modern China and 1930s Germany.
That explains it (Score:1)
No wonder Chinese tanks are better at identifying cats.
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