While the US and the EU may disagree on how to regulate tech, their lawmakers seem to agree on one thing: the West needs to ban artificial intelligence.

In China, social scoring is a practice in which authoritarian governmentsrank people's trustworthiness and punish them for bad behavior, such as stealing or not paying back loans. It is seen as a super score assigned to each citizen. There have been some controversial local experiments with social credit scores in China. While US and European politicians try to ban systems that don't really exist, systems that do rank and penalize people are already in place in the West. The full story is available to read.

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