An AI program can “determine the level of acceptability for ideological and political instruction” by reading brainwaves and facial expressions. According to Didi Tang, a Times reporter in Beijing, the technology was created by scientists at the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Centre.

Communist Party members’ facial expressions and brain waves can be analyzed to gauge their openness to “thought instruction.”

Tang claims that an article describing the technique was published online on July 1 and quickly removed.

The article said: ‘On one hand, it can judge how party members have accepted thought and political education. 

‘On the other hand, it will provide real data for thought and political education so it can be improved and enriched.’

The AI technology will strengthen Communist Party members’ “confidence and determination” to “be grateful to the party, listen to the party, and follow the party.”

Hefei Comprehensive National Science Centre has reportedly pushed 43 Communist Party members who are also members of the research team to test the technology.

A researcher was seen entering a kiosk, sitting in front of a screen, and showing articles highlighting party policy and accomplishments in a video that was included with the story but has since been removed.

‘The kiosk can see the researcher’s expressions, possibly via surveillance cameras,’ Tang says. 

The location of the brainwave-reading technology in the kiosk and the implementation of the entire system to keep an eye on the nation’s millions of Communist Party members are both unknown.

However, it seems that reading people’s brain waves is nothing new for China; in fact, the South China Morning Post revealed in 2018 that Hangzhou manufacturing workers were subjected to brain-scanning equipment.

This entailed employing artificial intelligence algorithms to identify emotional spikes like melancholy, anxiety, or fury using brain-reading helmets to read a worker’s emotions.

According to reports, President Xi Jinping’s Communist Party, which currently controls China, considers “thought and political education” to be crucial to maintaining party allegiance.

For its members, the party already has an “indoctrination app” named “Xuexi Qiangguo,” which translates to “Study to make China powerful.”

The 96.77 million users of the app are required to gain points by watching movies, reading articles, and responding to questions about historical Communist figures.

It keeps track of how long users spend looking through President Jinping’s motivational words and skimming through brief recordings of his speeches and tours.

According to AFP, members can exchange their points for items like doughnuts and tablets.

As a result of its use of sophisticated surveillance tools, like security cameras with facial recognition capabilities and police applications that allow them to access personal data from smartphones at checkpoints, China’s government has come under increased scrutiny.

China is renowned for deploying cutting-edge technology to monitor its population, most notably a social grading system like to that in Black Mirror to “restore morals” and blacklist “untrustworthy” citizens.

China built an AI prosecutor that can charge people with crimes with an accuracy rate of more than 97%, it was reported last year.

The eight most frequent crimes in Shanghai may be identified by this algorithm, which was “trained” using 17,000 actual incidents from 2015 to 2020.

These include credit card fraud, gambling offenses, reckless driving, theft, fraud, intentional injury, and disrupting official duties—a word used to stifle dissent in China.

Source: dailymail.co.uk