Huawei patents race detection AI

In late 2020, research group IPVM uncovered Huawei documents that stated it was working on a system that could trigger a ‘Uighur alarm’ for the

Chinese authorities. Huawei said, in response, “Huawei only supplies general purpose products for this kind of testing. We do not provide custom algorithms or applications.” However a patent lodged with the China National

Intellectual Property Administration discovered in January explicitly safeguards proprietary AI technology that can target pedestrians in public by

“race (Han, Uighur)”.