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Geoffrey Cain
Author of 'The Perfect Police State'
Foreign correspondent whose 2021 book documented Chinese AI-powered surveillance in Xinjiang. Frames AI surveillance as a present authoritarian threat.
current Author, Independent journalist
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Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesDocuments how AI surveillance is already deployed in authoritarian contexts; argues governance frameworks must address this present reality.
Xinjiang is a glimpse of what AI in the hands of an authoritarian state actually looks like.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.