Chinas Huawei tested A.I. software that could identify Uighur Muslims and alert police, report says
Summary
Many of these camps operate based on what Amnesty International describes as a "highly restrictive and discriminatory" law that China says is designed to combat extremism. American firms are restricted from doing business with companies on this blacklist, which includes some of Chinas AI champions like Megvii, SenseTime, Hikvision and Iflytek. U.S. technology used, report says IPVM said the document showed that U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia helped power the joint Megvii and Huawei surveillance system with its Tesla P4 GPU chip. Last month, the New York Times reported that chips from Intel and Nvidia were being used to power computers that could process and watch surveillance footage and that were part of Chinas monitoring of Uighurs in Xinjiang. The lawmakers asked the companies if they knew how their technology was being used and whether they took steps to ensure their chips were "not used for human rights abuses or to compromise U.S. national security."
