Government-funded Chinese study warns AI could turn social credit ratings into a large-scale surveillance tool

Lin Jianxing, a doctoral student at Sichuan University's law school, writes in the Journal of Sichuan Normal University that algorithmic social rating of citizens' online and offline activity could bring opacity, large-scale surveillance and discrimination in healthcare, lending and public services, UA.NEWS reports, citing SCMP; the paper is an academic warning, not a policy change.