New evidence of China’s humanitarian crimes in Xinjiang has emerged, with an anonymous software engineer revealing to British media that Chinese authorities are treating Uighurs as “guinea pigs” for emotional recognition tests in a real-life version of “1984. The Xinjiang-born citizen journalist predicted that China intends to promote the Xinjiang model of governance throughout the country and the world. Human rights groups are shocked and unacceptable.
The BBC reported Tuesday (25) that Chinese authorities have been testing an intelligent system that reveals emotional states through artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology on Uighurs in Xinjiang.
The software engineer interviewed by the BBC’s Panorama program asked to remain anonymous and did not disclose the name of his company for security reasons. But showed five photos of detained Uighurs, who were tested by authorities on the emotion recognition system, as evidence.
The engineer accused the Chinese government of using Uighurs as test subjects for various experiments, like lab rats.
Erkin Azat, a citizen journalist born in Xinjiang and currently living in exile in France, told the station that he had received confirmation from two people who had been there that the emotion detection system had been operating in the Xinjiang concentration camps.
Azat said: “I’ve come across two cases where they told me about emotion recognition. There was a girl who spent six months in the camp and she said, “There were cameras and loudspeakers in every cell. The second is in the Dasan City concentration camp, some girls were taken away by the correctional officers at night, and then when they were brought back they could not cry either, and if they expressed their emotions the monitoring could identify them.
Asat also said that the Chinese government treats Uyghurs like mice, but many Chinese do not realize that this practice is expanding nationwide and even globally.
China is treating the Uighurs like guinea pigs, but if this pattern continues, the Xinjiang model will spread to all of China, which is already exporting this technology to some dictatorships,” Asat said.
Yang Haiying, a professor of Mongolian descent at Shizuoka University in Japan, told the station that the Chinese Communist Party is establishing a high-tech totalitarian regime and has become the enemy of humanity.
Once it knows that advanced technology is a sharp weapon, it will try every possible way to use it on the various ethnic groups that resist it. This proves that China is an enemy of mankind.
Yang Haiying also criticized Western and Japanese multinational companies for selling high technology to China for profit.
Yang Haiying said: including Japan, Germany, Western multinational companies, it is often to earn money from China, these countries advanced technology to provide China, China and use its technology to its evil purposes.
Sophie Richardson, director of China for the international organization Human Rights Watch, said: “It is shocking and unacceptable that the Uighur people are reduced to a pie chart. Uyghurs are understandably nervous in a highly coercive environment and under enormous pressure, but this is considered intrinsic to the crime.
The anonymous engineer who spoke to the BBC revealed that police stations in his province have installed the system, and that the police have placed the camera of the emotion detection system, similar to a lie detector but much more technologically advanced, 3 meters away from the subject. The room is equipped with a “stationary chair” widely used in China’s public security system, where the subject’s wrists are locked in place by metal, as are the ankles.
The engineer also provided evidence of how the AI system was trained to detect and analyze facial expressions, skin pores and even small changes. Subsequently, the system software creates a pie chart with red sections indicating negative or anxious mental states.
Late last year, the U.S. camera system website IPVM published a report that Huawei and Alibaba were testing facial recognition technology for Uighurs, which could trigger a “Uighur alert” that would send messages to police after identifying them.
The Chinese Communist Party has built concentration camps in Xinjiang in recent years, detaining more than a million Muslims, and the authorities have been closely monitoring the area, collecting biometric data such as the voiceprints of Uighurs and other minorities. Human Rights Watch earlier published a report condemning the misuse of such data to target Uyghurs and dissidents. Five countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and Lithuania, have already determined that “the Chinese Communist Party has committed genocide against the Uighur people.
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