>>13227939Current understanding of AI requires data, tons of it. More more data, the faster AI can learn.
China's population of 1.4 billion + a large internet user (more than 3x the US internet users) + large consumer data (due to lack of general consumer privacy rights) + government data = extreme amounts of data. Everything in the west is gated by data privacy laws for GOOD reasons, that is to protect our right to privacy. For China, privacy are not afforded to citizens because the government mandated surveillance on everyone. This means the government also wants an AI to sort out who is doing the "wrongthink." They want to model their citizens under the banner of socialism thus they are willing to install points to citizen's behavior through their their behaviors. The government studies/track who buys what, who you talk to, what you talk about, and gives points to those colleagues/friends/family members who report wrongthink to the government for social points. They created a ladder for tracking these social events.
So yes, they MAY likely get to AI that manages people's lives first simply because the government policies require it. They may also lead the innovation AI. Innovation is a function of free time X desperation X population X access to technology. If they fail to do so, the government might come slowly fade/collapse into democracy due to richer/educated population demanding more freedom. But if they succeed in population control AI, then we'll see 10000 years of indoctrinated drones that may potentially control the world.
