Microsoft has worked with China’s National University of Defense Technology, which is controlled by China’s top military body, the Central Military Commission, on artificial intelligence (AI) research that could be used for surveillance and censorship, said the Financial Times.
Three papers, published between March and November last year, were co-written by academics at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing and researchers with affiliations to the Chinese military-run university.
One of the papers described a new AI method to recreate detailed environmental maps by analyzing human faces.