AI’s Next Gift to Evil: Forced Confession Propaganda in China

Commentary Terror extortion, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) “deepfake” technology, can target millions of individuals worldwide simultaneously every day. My previous article, “Human Impersonation AI Must Be Outlawed,” explains why such crimes of fraud and aggression at the “micro” level warrant outlawing human impersonation AI systems. The next big thing in totalitarianism will be at the “macro” level: deepfake AI human impersonation show trials and forced confessions. Made famous by genocidal dictator Joseph Stalin in the USSR, publicized trials of political opponents and accused “enemies of the state” inevitably produce convictions. The convicts are then paraded in front of cameras and crowds to “confess” their “crimes,” beg for forgiveness that is never to be granted, and praise the regime for capturing and correcting them. What follows are long prison terms in forced labor camps or speedy executions....