— Report Reveals Predictive Authoritarian Control System 🤦‍♂️

A new report published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reveals, in great detail, how the Chinese government is using advanced artificial intelligence systems to automate censorship, increase surveillance, and preemptively suppress dissent, elevating the authoritarian approach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to a new technological level.

According to the document, China is integrating AI into virtually all layers of internal security — from monitoring social media, smart cameras, and behavioral analysis, to sophisticated mass identification mechanisms that allow for the prediction and neutralization of potential political threats even before they occur.

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🧠 AI as the backbone of modern state control

Nathan Attrill, co-author of the report and senior analyst on China at ASPI, describes the Chinese strategy as a significant evolution of the traditional surveillance model:

“China is using AI to make its existing control systems much more efficient and intrusive. AI allows the Chinese Communist Party to monitor more people, more closely, and with less effort.”

Attrill adds that artificial intelligence has ceased to be merely a support mechanism and has become:

“The backbone of a much broader and predictive form of authoritarian control.”

ASPI emphasizes that, although it is a think tank partially funded by foreign governments, its findings are based on public sources, government documents, patents, and technology contracts obtained over the years.

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💰 Billion-Dollar Investments in AI Even Under US Pressure

The report emphasizes that Beijing has injected hundreds of billions of dollars into startups, universities, and companies focused on artificial intelligence — including computer vision, facial recognition, natural language, and behavioral analysis.

Even with the restrictions imposed by the United States on the supply of advanced chips, China has expanded its local semiconductor ecosystem and accelerated research in alternative hardware for AI.

Technological gains have already allowed the government to create integrated systems capable of simultaneously monitoring:

• real-time video streams,

• urban movements,

• online consumption patterns,

• social interactions,

• encrypted messages,

• protest trends,

• and even indices of 'loyalty' to the Party.

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📊 Chinese Population is Largely Favorable to the Use of AI

A 2024 survey conducted by Ipsos found that the Chinese are much more optimistic and enthusiastic about artificial intelligence than citizens of the other 32 analyzed countries.

This internal support strengthens the government's legitimacy to expand monitoring and automation systems — especially in cities like Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, where AI technologies already blend into everyday life.

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🏛 AI is a central piece of the Chinese digital strategy

The Chinese leader publicly reinforced the importance of AI as an essential element of the country's internet and governance policies.

In a meeting in November with senior members of the Communist Party, the leader 🗯️ stated that:

“AI presents challenges to cyberspace governance while also offering new avenues of support.”

State media emphasizes that AI is being used both to strengthen internal stability and to ensure global leadership in emerging technology — especially in the face of rising rivalry with the United States.