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so picture your life in a place where
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everything you do what you buy how you
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behave is tracked the government gives
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you a score and the score is a measure
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of how trustworthy you are as a citizen
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and determines what you're allowed to do
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like ever boarding a train getting a
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mortgage all goes back to this score
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it's called social credit it sounds like
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that show black mirror but it's actually
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happening in China so how does that
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change you
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does it change you what does your life
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look like when your every move is
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watched the system's eyes are in Big
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Data artificial intelligence and roughly
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200 million surveillance cameras and
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that's totally fine with all young how
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you she's 21 graduated from a good
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school with solid grades she's diligent
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she's nice no surprise
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she's a 752 that's her rating with
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sesame credit a private company working
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with the government on the algorithms
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for the social credit system the scores
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go from 350 to 950 and are based on
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habits and behavior buy clothes or
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diapers it's good a lot of alcohol too
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many video games not so good how you 752
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puts her in model citizen range and gets
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her discounts and privileges like using
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a shared bike without a deposit she
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likes it her friends do too they all
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have pretty high scores
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he said mechanism like pushes you to
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become a better citizen to build to
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build on the trust especially on the
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Chinese market because cuz you're you
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and you're not going to be punished if
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you haven't done anything wrong I think
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that's the point I think the system is
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working as a as a as a warning or a
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alert to like to push people to do it to
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be a good person and it's mandatory when
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it goes national social credit scores
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will be assigned to every one of China's
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citizens for life and what's weird
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so many people seem okay with it
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it's complicated but China went from
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extreme poverty to economic giant pretty
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quickly the credit history system didn't
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grow at the same pace so people would
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default on loans and get away with it
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adding scandals around fake food tainted
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baby milk and counterfeit goods and what
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if God is a big problem with trust so in
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2014 the communist party called for a
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system to allow the trustworthy to roam
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everywhere under heaven while making it
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hard for the discredited to take a
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single step the model is a place called
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wrong Chung it's in Shandong Province
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its orderly streets are spotless cars
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slowed down which is unheard of in China
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words like honesty and credibility
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appear on propaganda posters display
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cases show pictures of wrong tones most
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honored citizens
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you start with a thousand points and you
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can print out your report any time you
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lose points for things like jaywalking
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littering tossing cigarette butts or
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spreading rumors cameras do a lot of the
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surveillance work but it's pretty analog
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- like posters that lists the ways you
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can gain or lose points and each night
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tip on local TV shows the surveillance
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highlights of the day crayola and then
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there's Joe I need
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she's an information collector a paid
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enforcer who walks around and writes
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down deeds about her neighbors
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I feel fortable like the man who carried
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a drunk person home things like this are
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good deals she said but the farmer
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overheard swearing and being rude yeah
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bad deed Maisy yes yeah her quota is ten
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a month woman she likes the work thinks
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the city's better for it okay the thing
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about the social credit system is that
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there isn't one single system not yet
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different places have different rules
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so what do you do if you have bad social
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credit well for one you talk about it on
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Weibo which is like Twitter there are
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forums for discredited people to vent
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and get advice
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in Chongqing we hooked up with Wang Wei
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Jun he had a business until he was sued
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by a client and Huang refused to pay 90
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grand to settle it
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so the court put him on a social credit
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blacklist
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and things got WAY worse he explains
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that being blacklisted means he can't
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buy airplane or train tickets when he
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tries a message pops up saying he's
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discredited by the end of last year
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blacklisted people walked from 23
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million flights and 5 million high speed
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train trips and the list goes on being
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discredited makes it hard to get a job
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alone a hotel room or put kids in
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certain schools then there's the public
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shaming photo galleries of blacklisted
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citizens there's even an app that shows
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who around you is in debt
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in China being monitored is nothing new
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but algorithmic surveillance makes it
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possible to collect data to build
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detailed profiles of people especially
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the ones not loyal to the government of
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all the video surveillance cameras on
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the planet right now nearly half of them
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are in China people bothered by privacy
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concerns so we think it's a lot of
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camera keep the safety is really good
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we're good things a lot of people we can
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accept it and cameras are getting
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smarter so the information that comes
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out for my image identifies that I'm
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female middle aged talks about whether
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wearing glasses the shape of my face AI
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is taking them next level they can do
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more than just see they actually
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understand who they're seeing
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so already people don't care about it
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but they put the technology in there's
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too much for example across the right
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eye that's not a very good how far off
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are we from needing to draw those red
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lines it's very hard to say I think
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maybe that case that could mean 10 years
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or 20 years 15 years maybe maybe that's
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not very long yeah it's coming it's
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coming it's coming
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how you isn't so bothered for Sesame
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scores high life is good and she's used
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to living most of it online soon her
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education and medical records and any
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run-ins with the law will factor into
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her social credit score and wherever she
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goes someone will follow and ask who
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pianist
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