The following is from the reading section of today's Sankei Shimbun.
AI Prison Uighur by Jeffrey Kane, translated by Daido Seino (Shinchosha, 2,420 yen)
A vivid description of the severe violation of human rights
When You woke up in the morning, a Communist Party official was dispatched from the government next to you.
There are surveillance cameras in the living room, and parents and children have to be extremely careful even when talking to each other.
The DNA, facial, and voice recognition data of all family members has already been collected under the name of "medical checkup."
All movement and purchase information collected by scanning ID cards and all messages sent and received by smartphones will be reflected in government AI's "trust ranking" (artificial intelligence).
If the machine judges you untrustworthy, you will be sent to a concentration camp.
It is not a depiction of a science fiction movie but a daily routine repeated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region today.
In recent years, the Chinese government has been criticized for the severe human rights violations against the Uyghurs.
This book further accuses the horrible fact that AI technology is fully utilized in suppression.
How did this bizarre world of cutting-edge technology and dictatorial repression begin, and when was it completed?
Chinese companies supported by the Communist government and many American companies contributed to constructing this nightmarish system.
The collaboration of technology companies that has been going on behind the seriousness of the confrontation between the U.S. and China is the unknown truth of the "Uyghur problem." The "Uyghur Extraction and Tracking Algorithm" spread all over Xinjiang is chasing them without resting even for a moment.
There is no such thing as a safe place.
China is a perfect police state that continues to evolve continuously.
(Miho Kamezaki, Publication Planning Department, Shinchosha)
