A warning sign in Xibaipo, Hebei Province, which the Chinese Communist Party reveres as a historic site. A report published on December 1, 2025, by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says the CCP is using artificial intelligence technologies to transform its already-developed censorship and surveillance system into precise tools that more efficiently control the population.
[People News] A new report by an Australian think tank says the Chinese Communist Party is using artificial intelligence (AI) to deepen its control over domestic populations and overseas groups, and has created a domestic market that allows private tech companies to profit by helping the CCP strengthen censorship and surveillance.
According to Voice of America, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Monday (December 1) released a report titled “The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems Are Reshaping Human Rights”, which reveals how AI development is transforming China’s already highly developed state-control system into precise tools that allow the CCP to more efficiently manage its domestic population and target specific groups inside and outside China.
The report discloses new ways the CCP is using large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems to automate censorship, enhance surveillance, and preemptively suppress dissent.
The report focuses on the four areas in which the CCP expanded its use of advanced AI systems the fastest between 2023 and 2025: multimodal censorship of politically sensitive images; integration of AI into criminal justice processes; industrialization of online information control; and AI-powered platforms used by Chinese companies operating abroad.
The report’s authors say their key findings include:
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China’s large language models censor not only text but also politically sensitive images.
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The CCP government is deploying AI across all stages of the criminal justice system—including AI-powered policing, large-scale surveillance, smart courts, and smart prisons.
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The CCP is using large language models in minority languages to deepen surveillance and control of ethnic minorities inside and outside China.
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Most online censorship work in China is now performed by AI.
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China’s censorship regulations have created a strong domestic market for AI censorship tools.
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The use of AI has intensified CCP-backed erosion of the economic rights of certain vulnerable groups overseas, generating profits for Chinese private and state-owned enterprises.
The report’s authors say the CCP is embedding AI capabilities across multiple domains to strengthen its ability—inside and outside China—to shape information, behavior, and economic outcomes.
The report warns that China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI-enabled surveillance technology, and that surveillance technologies and platforms developed in China are unlikely to remain confined within China; other countries face clear risks.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is an independent and non-partisan think tank founded by the Australian government in 2001, with part of its funding coming from the Australian Ministry of Defence.
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