63 countries using Chinese AI surveillance technology

A report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released today on artificial intelligence surveillance revealed that 75 of the 176 countries in the world use this technology, and China is leading by far the producing countries to export this technology to the rest of the world.

An international index developed by the Carnegie Corporation for the use of artificial intelligence surveillance technology, shows that 63 countries in the world use Chinese technology, provided by giant companies headed by Huawei, Hikvision, Dahua and ZTE, and the first company alone exports this technology to at least fifty countries, including Arab countries are Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Many of the world's countries employing artificial intelligence surveillance technology combine Chinese and US technology and import products from more than two companies. The technology is used in three areas: smart city management (56 countries), face recognition systems (65 countries), and smart policies (52 countries).

The Chinese giant "Huawei" by far ahead of the rest of the world in the export of surveillance technology by artificial intelligence, with second place company "Nis Corporation" of Japan (14 countries).

Loans for encouragement
The report by the Carnegie Endowment, one of the world's leading research centers, concluded that China's export of AI surveillance technology is often accompanied by Beijing granting loans to importing countries to encourage them to buy the technology, which has happened in African and Asian countries such as Kenya, Laos, Mongolia, Uganda and Uzbekistan.

Not only are the Chinese exporting artificial intelligence surveillance technology, the Americans are also active in this area. Their companies provide these advanced products to nearly 32 countries, notably the software giant IBM, which exports its products to 11 countries, and is also active. Ballantier (9 countries) and Cisco (6 countries).

French, British and Israeli companies are also active in this area.

The report says that in order to address the implications of using the technology, it is necessary first to understand how it works, and how it is placed in public places, given the lack of information available in this area.

This lack of information has prompted the Carnegie Endowment to issue a global index of artificial intelligence surveillance, which includes data from 176 countries in the world resorting to this technology, an indicator that does not distinguish between the legal and illegal uses of this technology.

The indicator shows how the possibilities offered by the technology in question change the capabilities of governments to manage and monitor individuals and systems. The index provides details of the countries that have used AI surveillance technology, the type of technology they use and the countries that export it.

Abrasion in use
The report notes that the world's democracies have not taken appropriate action to monitor and control the proliferation of this advanced technology, which is linked in part to their use of human rights abuses.

The report stresses that democratic countries' use of this technology does not necessarily mean that they are employed in a way that harms individuals, pointing out that the main element that determines whether the use of technology involves human rights abuses is the nature of governments. Technology compared to other governments with a poor human rights record committed abuses in the use of this technology, but on a limited scale.

The Carnegie report found a strong correlation between the size of countries' military spending and the use of AI surveillance technology by their governments. Forty of the world's 50 largest defense spending countries use the technology.