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In the world there are many people who raise their voices daily warning about the dangers that technology poses for the privacy and intimacy of people due to its ability to carry out massive surveillance and monitoring of individuals. However, these warnings rarely come from the people who preside over one of the world's largest technology companies, such as

Microsoft

President

Brad Smith

.

Smith's intervention occurred during the broadcast of the panorama program of the British channel BBC, which dealt with the sophisticated surveillance system based on artificial intelligence that the Chinese government uses to monitor citizens.

A long and hard topic that, however,

China continues to improve day by day with constant innovations

.

Specifically,

China would have installed "emotion detectors"

which, according to the program, "would function as a lie detector but with much more advanced technology."

Some devices that would be used "

to confirm to the authorities their suspicions without having credible evidence

."

After subjecting a subject to this device, "the computer displays a score showing whether the suspect is considered dangerous and possibly guilty," a source revealed to the BBC program on how the surveillance systems in Xinjiang, a province in the west of China in which 12 million Muslims live subjected to

a strong system of surveillance and repression

.

A special program that featured Smith's expert testimony.

"I often

remember the lessons that Orwell left us in his book 1984.

The fundamental story here is that of a government that can see everything that people have done and hear what people have said all the time," said the manager. .

"Well," he continued, "that didn't happen in 1984 but let's be careful or

that's what will happen to us in 2024

and there are certain parts of the world where, unfortunately, reality is getting closer to 1984."

In this sense, the president of Microsoft urged countries to legislate on this matter.

"

If we don't create laws to protect citizens in the future

, we are going to realize that technology is one step ahead, and it will be very difficult to achieve," Smith said.

Eric Smith, former director of Google: "Other values ​​will be imposed on us"

The BBC program also featured former Google executive

Eric Schmidt

, who currently leads the US Government's National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

During his speech, Schmidt said that it

is "imperative" that the West beat China

in the race for artificial intelligence.

"The way to win is to pool our resources to develop global strategies for

democracies to win the artificial intelligence race,

" Schmidt said.

"If we don't,

we face a future where other values ​​will be imposed on us

," he said, referring to Chinese expansionism through technology.

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