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Ideas from the CBC: On China: Detention, Surveillance — And Profit

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Canadian anthropologist Darren Byler sees a confluence in Xinjiang province in China of constant surveillance, state data harvesting, and private companies driven by profit. Today’s edition of IDEAS asks: how does this apply to the global race for supremacy in artificial intelligence?