And in a society in which everyone is connected digitally, the state can make anyone an instant pariah when the algorithm turns them radioactive, even to their family. In a cashless society, the state has the power to bankrupt dissidents instantly by cutting off access to the internet. The bottom line: a Chinese citizen cannot participate in the economy or society unless he has the mark of approval from Xi Jinping, the country’s all-powerful leader. And a social-credit scofflaw will find himself isolated, as the algorithmic system downgrades those who are connected to the offender. They may lose their job and have a difficult time finding a new one. Their children may not be allowed to go to college. They aren’t allowed to buy high speed train tickets or take flights. Those with lower scores find daily life harder. On the other hand, one who does something negative-letting his or her dog poop on the sidewalk, for example, or making a snarky comment on social media-suffers a social-credit downgrade.īecause digital life, including commercial transactions, is automatically monitored, Chinese with high social credit ratings gain privileges. A Chinese who does something socially positive-helping an elderly neighbor with a chore, or listening to a speech of leader Xi Jinping-receives points toward a higher social credit score. China’s social credit system automatically tracks the words and actions, online and off, of every Chinese citizen, and grants rewards or demerits based on obedience. In theory, police don’t have to show up at the suspect’s door to make him pay for his disobedience. If a citizen enters an area forbidden to him-a church, say-or even if a person is merely walking in the opposite direction of a crowd, the system automatically records it and alerts the police.
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Beijing’s software is so advanced that it can easily check facial scans against the central security database. Television cameras are ubiquitous on Chinese streets, recording the daily comings and goings of the nation’s people. The state has other uses for facial recognition technology. They also generate an enormous amount of personal data about each Chinese individual, all of which the government tracks. These provide consumer convenience and security, making life easier for ordinary people. The great majority of Chinese pay for consumer goods and services using smartphone apps or their faces, via facial recognition technology. He is talking about Beijing’s pioneering use of artificial intelligence and other forms of digital data gathering to create a state apparatus that not only monitors all citizens constantly but also can compel them to behave in ways the state demands without ever deploying the secret police or the threat of gulags (though those exist for the recalcitrant), and without suffering the widespread poverty that was the inevitable product of old-style That internalization is the goal: agencies of the state will never need to intervene to correct the citizen’s behavior, because the citizen has done it for them in advance.” “The project aims to form not only a new kind of state but a new kind of human being, one who has fully internalized the demands of the state and the completeness of its surveillance and control. “China is about to become something new: an AI-powered techno-totalitarian state,” writes journalist John Lanchester. In China, the tools of surveillance capitalism are employed by the surveillance state to administer the so-called social credit system, which determines who is allowed to buy, sell, and travel, based on their social behavior. From Live Not By Lies:īeijing’s use of consumer data, biometric information, GPS tracking coordinates, facial recognition, DNA, and other forms of data harvesting has turned, and continues to turn, China into a beast never before seen worldwide, not even under Mao or Stalin. Regular readers know that my belief is that the coming “soft totalitarianism” will rely on a social credit system, like the one the Chinese use, to control the masses and to compel conformity without having to use “hard” methods. I’ll tell you about it in a second, but first, I want to share with you a passage from the book.
A reader forwarded some information to me this morning that made my jaw drop.
Fortunately - or, to be honest, unfortunately for us all - 2020 is making my job a lot easier. We are just over one week away from the release of Live Not By Lies, and I’m gearing up for swatting down the “Dreher’s just being alarmist” accusations.
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