Chinese AI Players Face Blacklist Roadblocks Enterprise IT News

In widening its punishment of China in the ongoing US-China trade war, the US has extended its blacklist to directly handicap its biggest competition in a much higher stakes race, for world domination in AI. Recently, almost ten more AI companies – including providers of video surveillance, facial and speech recognition and data recovery; were added to US trade black list. The reasons cited were related to the violation of human rights by the supposed usage of AI technology in China's repression the Muslim ethnic minority groups of the Uygur region. Here is an interesting digression; that one of the most notable Chinese AI companies in this most recent US blacklist is SenseTime Group (known for its facial recognition AI tech), whose founder Tang Xiao'ou was appointed as the foreign national to Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional. SenseTime is the top AI'unicorns' startup from China with a valuation of over USD7 billion.