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Aug 19, 2026
The Chinese Companies Doing Mass Surveillance For Hire (with Brett Benson)
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Ben SandoHOST
But how does this ecosystem work in China? Are there certain characteristics of it you think that make it very unique to China?

Brett V. BensonGUEST
Yeah, so you just mentioned that Golaxi might be surprised and somewhat naive to think that anybody outside of China might be watching what they're doing.

Brett V. BensonGUEST
I think that the system is set up the way it is so that top-line priorities...

Brett V. BensonGUEST
But then the Chinese Academy of Sciences is this institution that farms talent, recruits talent, but then also sort of sets the agenda for the research programs that can execute those policy priorities.

Brett V. BensonGUEST
And then these companies spin off to productize the technology and then sell it back to the party institutions, operationalize the policy.
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Ben SandoHOST
Has that impacted at all a company like Giege, which is trying to employ compute at a massive scale?