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How the surveillance state is exported through trade in AI

Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman


Autocracies and weak democracies are more likely to import facial recognition AI from China, particularly in years when they experience domestic unrest, say Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Yang and Noam Yuchtman.


9 October 2023


VoxDev


https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/how-surveillance-state-exported-through-trade-ai

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