[dbkaplun]

Perhaps China is advertising this to deter crime, as a potential criminal might worry about facial recognition before doing something illegal.

[randomsearch]

"crime"

[coldtea]

There does exist such thing as "crime", even in China (imagine that). It's not all angelic citizens and among them, some angelic dissidents.

[logfromblammo]

The surveillance AI knows nothing of the difference between malum in se (crime!) and malum prohibitum ("crime"). The pamphleteer protesting local corruption and the strongarm robber are caught in the same trap.

[root_axis]

> The surveillance AI knows nothing of the difference between malum in se (crime!) and malum prohibitum ("crime")

And for the humans in charge of the AI there is no such distinction so the AI is working as intended.