Artificial Intelligence: China overhauls world's biggest surveillance network with advanced AI
Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems
China is overhauling the world's largest surveillance network with advanced AI, giving the state more automated powers to track people, analyse behaviour and predict potential unrest in real time.
An FT analysis of more than a dozen procurement documents and interviews with people familiar with the contracts found that local governments across China are deploying new AI-powered surveillance systems as Beijing pushes police forces towards so-called predictive policing.