Here’s How AI Is Being Used to Persecute Christians

Here’s How AI Is Being Used to Persecute Christians

COMMENTARY: When technology serves power instead of the person, the result is not progress but oppression.

Artificial intelligence is giving governments and hostile actors the ability to identify, monitor and silence Christians in ways that are quieter, faster, and harder to expose. What once required vast manpower can now be done instantly, at scale and with precision that human surveillance could never match.

In China, authorities have installed cameras at the entrances of churches and, in some cases, inside sanctuaries. These cameras are tied to facial recognition systems that can identify worshippers and feed that information into state databases. Incredibly, Church attendance can quietly damage a person’s career, block university admission, or limit travel. A national policing platform known as the Integrated Joint Operations System aggregates biometric data, travel history and communications to flag “suspicious” individuals. First deployed against Uyghur Muslims, the same system has been used to monitor Christian communities.

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