China claims AI can predict crime with a 'precision and speed unmatchable by humans'

The authorities have sought to justify mass surveillance in Xinjiang as a means to fight terrorism. Fu Xiaolong of Cloud Walk a facial recognition developer told the Financial Times: "The police are using a big-data rating system to rate highly suspicious groups of people based on where they go and what they do." He added that the risk rises if the person "frequently visits transport hubs and goes to suspicious places like a knife store". Another way that the police can use AI to predict crimes is through algorithms that use "crowd analysis" to detect "suspicious" patterns of individuals to determine if they are a thief, for example. It can also be used to monitor "high risk" locations, such as knife and hammer shops.