According to reports, China has intensified surveillance known as “emotion recognition technology” to control human feelings and help them enforce the law.
Emotion recognition technology tracks features such as facial muscle movements, vocal tone, and body movements to infer a person’s feelings, the state-run Global Times reported.
“Recognition of emotions is certainly the direction of humanity’s future technological development,” Ma Qingguo, who is head of the Academy of Neuroeconomics and Neuromanagement at Ningbo University, said at the exit.
Some Chinese experts presume that the new technology has an accuracy of up to 95 percent in detecting people’s emotions.
The cutting-edge tool is increasingly used in a variety of fields, including health, the fight against terrorism and urban security, sources said at the exit.
For example, the artificial intelligence system can control car occupants passing through a busy intersection, state media reported.
Security officials could stop a vehicle in which passengers appear nervous about looking for drugs in the vehicle, according to the report.
Chen Wei, who is CEO of Taigusys, a technology company, said the tool also has the ability to predict dangerous behaviors for prisoners, students with problems in schools, and seniors with dementia in residences, he said. The Guardian.
“Ordinary people here in China are not happy with this technology, but they have no choice,” Chen told the dam.
“If the police say there should be cameras in a community, people will just have to live with it. There is always that demand and we are here to meet it.”
Chen said Taigusys systems have already been installed near 300 prisons, detention centers and prisons across the country, connecting 60,000 cameras.
He said the existence of systems alone has an impact on inmate behavior.
“Because they know what the system does, they will not consciously try to violate certain rules,” he said.