George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people

The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has delivered a stinging attack on China with a warning that Xi Jinping's regime is using breakthroughs in machine learning and artificial intelligence to repress its people. Soros used his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum to say Xi was the most dangerous opponent of open societies and to call on the west to crack down on Chinese tech companies that he said were being used as a means of authoritarian control. "I want to call attention to the mortal danger facing open societies from the instruments of control that machine learning and artificial intelligence can put in the hands of repressive regimes. I'll focus on China, where Xi Jinping wants a one-party state to reign supreme," Soros said. 'The reality is that we are in a cold war that threatens to turn into a hot one' In the past, Soros has used his keynote Davos address to attack Donald Trump, and he again criticised the US president for his handling of China.