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China’s Military Power Using Artifical Intelligence

By Contributing Writer on March 16, 2021

Linda Goudsmit’s editorial opinion:

Corrupt, China-puppet president Joe Biden, according to Jen Psaki, “will hold China accountable for its unfair and illegal practices and making sure that American technologies aren’t facilitating China’s military buildup???” The Biden family is deeply involved financially in China’s military buildup – if this were not so dangerous it would make a great Saturday Night Live parody of The Emperor’s New Clothes!

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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17110/china-military-artificial-intelligence

China and Military Power through Artificial Intelligence

by Peter Schweizer
March 13, 2021

Excerpts from the article:

Complacency or eased trade restrictions on dual-use technology would be the greater danger. So would any backing-off of counter-espionage investigations into Chinese bribery of American university professors or further infiltrations of PLA-linked Chinese nationals into research centers in the U.S. Both are prime examples of Beijing’s willingness to play a long game as regards theft of intellectual property that has potential military applications.
Interestingly, there is another Chinese firm that is often mentioned in discussions of China’s push into facial recognition AI development. The company known as Megvii produces a software application called Face++ that has secured many patents in the use of AI for surveillance technologies. One of that company’s stakeholders? Bohai Harvest RST, the investment company started by Hunter Biden and his business partners.
We have seen that China is one of the many practitioners of the “Princeling” strategy, which enriches the associates or family members of powerful politicians in order to grease the skids for deals that, if considered on their own merits, would likely not be allowed by the national security gatekeepers whose mission is to protect valuable military technology from getting into the hands of America’s adversaries.
Military use of artificial intelligence may well determine the outcome of the next war, and it is far too strategic to American national security to look away for even a moment from the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party.

Based on patents China has secured in the AI domain, it has thus far spent far more effort on technology meant to monitor and oppress its own citizens. This includes extensive research in facial-recognition software, which China uses to track its own people, especially the Uyghur minority that it has forced into concentration camps. China also has an advantage in patents for Chinese-language data processing and speech recognition.

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Interestingly, there is another Chinese firm that is often mentioned in discussions of China’s push into facial recognition AI development. The company known as Megvii produces a software application called Face++ that has secured many patents in the use of AI for surveillance technologies.

One of that company’s stakeholders? Bohai Harvest RST, the investment company started by Hunter Biden and his business partners.

Chinese technology companies such as Huawei were sanctioned heavily by the Trump administration, which placed the company on the Commerce Department’s “Entity List,” preventing its products from being sold in the U.S. Signs are good that the Biden administration understands the threat to U.S. communications networks. When asked recently whether Biden would keep Huawei on the US Entity List, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that technology remains at the very center of US-China competition:

“China has been willing to do whatever it takes to gain a technological advantage – stealing intellectual property, engaging in industrial espionage, and forcing technology transfer.

“Our view – the President’s view – is that we need to play a better defense, which must include holding China accountable for its unfair and illegal practices and making sure that American technologies aren’t facilitating China’s military buildup.”

Military use of artificial intelligence may well determine the outcome of the next war, and it is far too strategic to American national security to look away for even a moment from the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party.