OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. The company’s researchers said they had identified this new campaign, which they called Peer Review, because someone working on the tool used OpenAI’s technologies to debug some of the computer code that underpins it. Ben Nimmo, a principal investigator for OpenAI, said this was the first time the company had uncovered an A.I.-powered surveillance tool of this kind. “Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing in other parts of the internet because of the way they use our A.I. models,” Mr. Nimmo said. There have been growing concerns that A.I. can be used for surveillance, computer hacking, disinformation campaigns and other malicious purposes. Though researchers like Mr. Nimmo say the technology can certainly enable these kinds of activities, they add that A.I. can also help identify and stop such behavior.

Full report : OpenAI says a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.