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A Hikvision camera in Hong Kong. Many of the Chinese companies that attended the conference are on US export control lists.
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Vivian Wang
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BEIJING – Police officers walked past the display of robot dogs and into the ornate Beijing hotel ballroom as a welcome video showed animated androids conducting warfare in outer space.
For the next few hours, the officers, who had come from all across China, sat and listened as tech executives and government researchers took the stage to describe how they could use artificial intelligence to perfect their surveillance of Chinese society.
