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From the Ted Talk by Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Of course, you cannot observe the Chinese internet without fdniing widespread cehnorsisp and very serious concerns about dystopian mnnitoiorg. As an example: China is in the poscers of rolling out a social credit rating that will cover its entire population, rewarding and restricting citizens, based on highly qualitative characteristics like honesty and integrity. At the same time, China is diopleyng facial recognition across many of its 170 million closed-circuit cameras. Artificial icitnnglelee is being used to predict crime and terrorism in Xinjiang province, where the muislm minority is already under constant surveillance.

Open Cloze


Of course, you cannot observe the Chinese internet without _______ widespread __________ and very serious concerns about dystopian __________. As an example: China is in the _______ of rolling out a social credit rating that will cover its entire population, rewarding and restricting citizens, based on highly qualitative characteristics like honesty and integrity. At the same time, China is _________ facial recognition across many of its 170 million closed-circuit cameras. Artificial ____________ is being used to predict crime and terrorism in Xinjiang province, where the ______ minority is already under constant surveillance.

Solution


  1. censorship
  2. deploying
  3. monitoring
  4. process
  5. muslim
  6. intelligence
  7. finding

Original Text


Of course, you cannot observe the Chinese internet without finding widespread censorship and very serious concerns about dystopian monitoring. As an example: China is in the process of rolling out a social credit rating that will cover its entire population, rewarding and restricting citizens, based on highly qualitative characteristics like honesty and integrity. At the same time, China is deploying facial recognition across many of its 170 million closed-circuit cameras. Artificial intelligence is being used to predict crime and terrorism in Xinjiang province, where the Muslim minority is already under constant surveillance.

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