China’s A.I. Advances Help Its Tech Industry, and State Security<br />Even some global companies are impressed: Delphi, a major American auto supplier, offers iFlyTek’s technology to carmakers in China,<br />while Volkswagen plans to build the Chinese company’s speech recognition technology into many of its cars in China next year.<br />China wrote that does not have the stringent privacy laws<br />that Western companies have, nor are Chinese citizens against having their data collected, as (arguably speaking) government monitoring is a fact of<br />Sophie Richardson wrote that The Chinese government has been collecting the voice patterns of tens of thousands of people with<br />little transparency about the program or laws regulating who can be targeted or how that information is going to be used,<br />The video was a publicity stunt, designed to show off the voice capabilities of iFlyTek, a Chinese artificial<br />intelligence company with both innovative technology and troubling ties to Chinese state security.<br />Mr. Liu, the head of iFlyTek’s automotive business, said<br />that the company’s systems would be installed next year in some Jeeps sold in China and that it was developing automotive voice systems with Daimler, which owns the Mercedes-Benz brand.<br />Through a third-party supplier, a few hundred thousand of the four million cars<br />that the Volkswagen Group sells in China annually will be equipped next year with iFlyTek voice recognition technology, said Christoph Ludewig, a spokesman for the German automaker.
