Mind Reading for Tests of Communist Loyalty By James Reed
If it is totalitarian and involves high tech, just look to communist China to be in it, as this nation seems determined to make every dystopian sci fi movie depiction a reality. For example, researchers at China’s Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei, claim to have developed computer software able to measure the loyalty of members of the Communist Party of China (CCP), which in a dictatorship, is the only party to be loyal to anyway. As for not being loyal, anyone who steps over the line gets squashed, so what is the point of the software, based upon facial expressions and brainwaves? I suspect that this is bs, since how exactly is loyalty, or even degrees of loyalty measured by brain waves? Seems like more pseudo-science, but that is the name of the game today.
“A group of scientists in China claims to have developed a ‘mind-reading’ artificial intelligence system. It is said to measure the loyalty of members of the Communist Party of China (CCP). That is, it is a software that detects the loyalty of the members of the only party in the country. Researchers at China’s Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei have said the software can measure party members’ reactions to “idea and political learning” by analyzing facial expressions and brainwaves.
Voice of America (VoA) Report According to the report, the researchers have said that the results found in this system can be used to ‘strengthen the party’. According to the report, Chinese scientists reportedly tested the equipment by reading brainwaves and scanning the faces of party members. While scanning the faces of the party members, they were given articles about CPC to read. The ‘loyalty’ score of the members was then measured. It is claimed that this latest technology has made it possible to ‘detect the level of concentration and ideology of ideological and political education’.
The report says that this so-called mind-reading technology is not the only digital control being used by China. independent key Report According to, the country’s scientists have developed a device that can ‘read the mind’ of a person to find out whether someone is watching pornography or not. It is currently a prototype that will help Chinese Internet censors detect people who view pornographic content on the Internet.
Earlier it was reported in a report that China was using facial recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) camera systems to detect the sentiments of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region. Chinese officials are said to have installed these systems in police stations in the area. A software engineer claimed that they worked like systems lie detectors, but were equipped with more hi-tech technology than them. In this way the work of suppressing the voice of Uighur Muslims was done.’
Whether or not the tech works, the sentiment of social control behind it is alarming. And, like the Covid bug, is coming our way.
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