Terminologies
This AI technology can create realistic but fake videos, often used for misinformation in non-democratic regimes."
What is a deepfake?
This AI tool from Google uses deep learning to generate captions for videos, making it easier to create accessible content.
What is Youtube Auto-Captions?
This is China's super-app, where users can pay for groceries, communicate with friends, and even buy plane tickets.
What is WeChat?
This city has launched an AI initiative in sectors like finance and education, aiming to transform itself into the smartest and happiest city in the world.
What is Dubai?
Citizens of this Asian country, known for its tense relations with the US and its state-sponsored cyberattacks, used AI to create fake American IDs to land remote IT work.
What is South Korea?
This type of software, some of which are AI-powered, is often used by non-democratic governments to flood social media platforms with automated messages that promote propaganda or discredit opposition.
What are bots?
This AI tool from Google quickly summarizes complex documents(sources), answers questions about them, and transforms them into podcasts or study guides, while avoiding inferences or guesses.
What is Notebook LM?
This technology is extensively used in China to monitor public spaces and track citizens’ activities, often raising privacy concerns.
What is facial recognition?
This is the world’s largest oil company that has partnered with Google Cloud to deploy AI solutions for its operations in areas like reservoir modeling and drilling performance.
What is Saudi Aramco?
This country, known for its vast territory and history of innovation, has launched an AI-driven facial-recognition payment system for subway rides in its capital city.
What is Russia?
This practice involves using AI to deliberately create and spread false or misleading information to deceive the public, often seen in non-democratic states.
What is AI-enhanced disinformation?
This AI-powered virtual assistant from Apple can handle tasks like setting reminders, sending messages, and controlling smart devices.
What is Siri?
Similar to eBay and Amazon, this is a Chinese multinational technology company that specialises in e-commerce, retail, the internet, and technology
What is Alibaba?
This country uses blockchain technology to ensure transparency in land ownership records. This measure effectively prevents fraudulent land transactions, thereby mitigating corruption risks.
What is Qatar?
Journalists in this South American country have been using AI to avoid government scrutiny amid a post-election crackdown on journalists in recent months.
What is Venezuela?
This term describes the use of AI to create fake public support or opposition for a policy or organization, making it seem like a grassroots movement in both democratic and non-democratic states.
What is astroturfing?
This is a machine learning technology that gives computers the ability to interpret, manipulate, and comprehend human language.
What is Natural Language Processing?
This system blocks access to many international websites and censors online content, serving as a critical tool in the country’s digital information control strategy.
What is The Great Firewall?
This system in Oman uses AI to collect and analyze environmental data from satellites, drones, and sensors to monitor conditions like air quality, water resources, and biodiversity.
What is the Oman Environmental Data Network?
This North African country utilizes AI in its border control systems to monitor movement, and has also integrated AI to streamline legal processes.
What is Morocco?
This term refers to AI-created imitations that replace reality with artificial representations, such as deepfakes or virtual influencers.
This AI-powered platform, headquarted in New York allows creators to generate and edit videos, images, and audio with machine learning models, making it easier for non-experts to use AI in their projects.
What is Runway ML?
Nicknamed the “Silicon Valley of China,” this Beijing neighbourhood is the epicentre of the country's AI movement.
What is Zhongguancun?
In 2021, The International Data Corporation estimated that this sector would invest the most in AI within the Middle East and Africa.
What is the financial sector?
This landlocked country's opposition group endorses AI candidate, Yas Gaspadar, in parliamentary elections earlier this year.
What is Belarus?