US Warns China on Surveillance While Profiting From It
The AP reports U.S. lawmakers are scrambling to close a 'loophole' allowing China to rent American AI chips for surveillance, after four failed attempts. This frantic legislative activity comes despite a 'flurry' of lobbying from over 100 tech companies. Yet, the glaring hypocrisy isn't that China is using the tech—it's that, as the AP begrudgingly notes, the U.S. government across five
administrations 'repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government agencies and surveillance companies.' It seems the concern isn't surveillance itself, but who's doing the surveilling, and who's losing out on future contracts. America's moral compass, pivoting effortlessly with profit margins.