AI Surveillance and Autonomous Warfare Fears Rise in China (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: These are robotic police officers already operating on streets in China using cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor and manage people in real time. U.S. experts call this authoritarian AI, technology designed to watch, to predict, and in some cases to act automatically. And China says the U.S. is doing this too. A Georgetown University report found ICE has built massive AI-driven surveillance systems capable of pulling data on most American adults in the name of national security. Now in China, this report from ASPI says AI is turbocharging surveillance of China's 1.4 billion people with as many as 600 million cameras. That's roughly three cameras for every seven people. The report says many of these cameras are now AI-enabled, tracking faces, movement, and behavior. Algorithms used to flag what authorities call abnormal activity, even forecasting protests before they happen. China's foreign ministry tells CNN ASPI is anti-China and long known for fabricating lies and false information. And it doesn't stop with surveillance. China's military is openly imagining how AI could be used in a future conflict, including drone swarms and humanoid robots attacking right here in Taiwan. Systems that could someday adapt, keep fighting, and even strike without waiting for human commands.