Valentin Weber is a senior research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and a China Foresight associate at LSE IDEAS. He has been an Open Technology Fund Senior Fellow in Information Controls at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and holds a doctorate in cybersecurity from the University of Oxford.
The Chinese Communist Party is dreaming an authoritarian techno-dream that is a democrat’s nightmare: ever more fine-grained state control made possible by using AI networks to pry and spy everywhere. But human unpredictability remains a force the party-state cannot tame.
The Chinese Communist Party’s newest AI advance is making repression smarter, cheaper, and more deadly. Even worse, they aim to export it to the world.
