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No Social Scoring! EU Lawmaker Condemns China’s Weaponization of AI

A Romanian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) warned against the use of artificial intelligence to create social credit scores Tuesday, promising that the European Union would ban this dystopian horror. 

MEP Dragoș Tudorache discussed upcoming European Union artificial intelligence regulations during a conversation with The Washington Post Live. During the March 12 interview, Tudorache told Cat Zakrzewski, host and Post national tech policy correspondent, that dangerous use of artificial intelligence such as “social scoring,” “predictive policing,” and facial recognition would be banned throughout the EU. 

China’s social scoring, also known as social credit scores, is a plan to create public and private systems to surveil people and monitor them for law-breaking, spreading disinformation and other unapproved behaviors, among other…

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