Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project

Google, which has made strides in applying its proprietary deep learning tools to improve language translation, and vision recognition, has a cross-team collaboration within the company to work on the AI drone project.

Source: theintercept.com

China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

If the system flags anything suspicious – a large purchase of fertilizer, perhaps, or stockpiles of food considered a marker of terrorism – it notifies police, who are expected to respond the same day and act according to what they find. ‘Who ought to be taken, should be taken,’ says a work report located by the rights organization.

Source: theglobeandmail.com