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"System 206" is a Chinese Artificial Intelligence program that takes the place of a prosecutor and this is not at all like every dystopian movie you've ever seen so stop thinking that right now.

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Leave it to the enterprising Chinese Communist Party to fully automate oppression. The name, "System 206" is as chilling and bloodless sounding as it is antiseptically anodyne. It would also make a great name for a punk band. Designed by the state to relieve their prosecutors from the relentless burden of punishing thought crimes, System 206 is expected to become self aware at 2:14 AM Eastern Time on August 29th, 1997… Wait, sorry, lost myself there for a moment. The machine was "trained" using more than 17,000 cases from 2015 to 2020. So far, it can identify and press charges…

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