Journal article
AI-tocracy
- Abstract:
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Recent scholarship has suggested that artificial intelligence (AI) technology and autocratic regimes may be mutually reinforcing. We test for a mutually reinforcing relationship in the context of facial-recognition AI in China. To do so, we gather comprehensive data on AI firms and government procurement contracts, as well as on social unrest across China since the early 2010s. We first show that autocrats benefit from AI: local unrest leads to greater government procurement of facial-recogni...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Quarterly Journal of Economics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 138
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 1349–1402
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1531-4650
- ISSN:
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0033-5533
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1557089
- Local pid:
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pubs:1557089
- Deposit date:
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2023-11-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Beraja et al
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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