China is resorting to AI technology serving for emotional surveillance

China is ramping up efforts on cybersecurity monitoring, which has in a way advanced the research and development of artificial intelligence technology worldwide. In addition to the textual and pictorial content, video footage has lately become the nouveau source of web-behavior analysis adopted by several leading companies, theoretically based on the technique of emotion recognition. Apart from what’s happening in China, Google and Microsoft are also working on it, though there is still a long way to go before it matures.