Report: “The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights”
The rise of AI is transforming China’s state control system into a precision instrument for managing its population and targeting groups at home and abroad.
Key findings:
- Chinese LLMs censor politically sensitive images, not just text.
- The Chinese Government is deploying AI throughout the criminal‑justice pipeline—from AI‑enabled policing and mass surveillance, to smart courts, to smart prisons.
- China is using minority‑language LLMs to deepen surveillance and control of ethnic minorities, both in China and abroad.
- AI now performs much of the work of online censorship in China.
- China’s censorship regulations have created a robust domestic market for AI‑enabled censorship tools.
- The use of AI amplifies China’s state‑supported erosion of the economic rights of some vulnerable groups abroad, to the financial benefit of Chinese private and state‑owned companies.
aspi.org.au/report/the-par
