China Uses AI to Flag Thousands of Uyghurs for Detention: Report

Leaked Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents have revealed how China uses artificial intelligence to round up Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities for detention in Xinjiang's network of mass internment camps. The classified documents, made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on Nov. 24, has also uncovered the repressive inner workings of the detention camps in the troubled western region, where at least one million are believed to have been detained, according to figures quoted by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the United Nations. NEW: #ChinaCables is a leak of highly classified Chinese documents that expose the inner workings of mass detention camps in Xinjiang and reveal, in the government's own words, how it manages the day-to-day internment and forced indoctrination of Uighurs. In the second major leak in just days of the inner-workings of the CCP in Xinjiang, the papers--the China Cables--reveal that "Chinese police are guided by a massive data collection and analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to select entire categories of Xinjiang residents for detention." In the space of just one week, the names of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the region were issued for arrest and interrogation using data collected by mass surveillance technology, according to the ICIJ report.