The Chinese Regime’s ‘Social Credit’ Dystopia

The threat of artificial intelligence meeting political correctness

A teacher uses a fingerprint and facial recognition machine to check a student before a simulated college entrance exam in China's northern Hebei Province on June 6, 2017.

The Chinese regime is pushing a new form of order under its big data “social credit” system, a system based on extreme surveillance and documentation that assigns each citizen a rating, and either rewards or punishes them.

“The social credit system being implemented in China represents the coming dystopian nightmare of authoritarian state control combined with networked databases that allow every meaningful social and economic activity a citizen engages in to be monitored for ‘compliance’ purposes,” said Dr. Robert J. Bunker, adjunct research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute at U.S. Army War College.