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2024	Government by algorithm Steve Endacott ran as an AI avatar named 'AI Steve' in the Brighton Pavilion constituency for the UK general election, promising to vote in Parliament based on policies with at least 50% support. AI Steve placed last with 179 votes.
2023	Social Credit System As of this year, there was no uniform method for publicizing blacklists within the Social Credit System.
2023	Social Credit System Academic Filip Šebok wrote about the most common myth of the Social Credit System: the belief in a single numerical score recording individuals' behavior.
2023	Social Credit System Academic Vincent Brussee noted that European misconceptions about China's Social Credit System have become a source of amusement among Chinese Internet users.
2023	Social Credit System Most private social credit initiatives are shut down by the People's Bank of China (PBOC).
November 2023	Government by algorithm In Manazuru, Japan, an AI mayoral candidate called 'AI Mayer' hopes to become the first AI-powered officeholder, supported by Michihito Matsuda's group.
2022	Social Credit System Academics Diana Fu and Rui Hou published an article 'Rating Citizens with China's Social Credit System', noting the persistent Western misconceptions about the system.
2022	Government by algorithm The chatbot 'Leader Lars' was nominated by The Synthetic Party to run in the Danish parliamentary election, created by the artist collective Computer Lars. This chatbot engaged in critical political discussions globally.
November 14 2022	Social Credit System The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued a draft Law on the Establishment of the Social Credit System, which was critically viewed by academics as unsubstantial and merely reiterating existing policies.
October 2022	Social Credit System A study by professors from Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Pennsylvania State University finds that the Social Credit System is commonly used to repress protesters, petitioners, journalists, and political activists in Chinese localities.
February 2022	Social Credit System Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) reports that a social credit 'score' is a myth, with no single score determining a citizen's societal status.
2021	Social Credit System Rongcheng revises its social credit pilot program to make it strictly voluntary and capable of issuing only rewards.
2021	Social Credit System Social Credit System became an internet meme on various social media platforms, reflecting discontent toward Chinese government restrictions.
2021	Government by algorithm A follow-up poll by IE University revealed that 51% of Europeans supported reducing national parliamentary seats and replacing them with algorithmic decision-making, with significant variations across countries and generations.
2021	Government by algorithm Eticas Foundation launched the Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact (OASI), a database of governmental algorithms.
December 2021	Social Credit System China issued the National List of Basic Penalty Measures for Untrustworthiness and the National Directory of Public Credit Information, establishing limitations on credit information collection and usage.
December 31 2021	Social Credit System By the end of 2021, over five million citizens had been affected by the Social Credit System's blacklisting scheme in some form, demonstrating the extensive reach of the system's implementation.
November 2021	Social Credit System UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, which advised against using AI systems for social scoring or mass surveillance purposes, with China as a signatory.
October 2021	Social Credit System The Jamestown Foundation explored the function of the Social Credit System, concluding there were widespread misinterpretations about its mechanism.
September 2021	Government by algorithm Blockchains, Inc. 'Innovation Zone' project was canceled after failing to secure sufficient water resources for the planned development, specifically unable to import water from 100 miles away in Washoe County.
March 2021	Social Credit System The Diplomat published an article explaining that the Social Credit System is primarily a financial risk assessment tool, not an Orwellian surveillance system.
March 2021	Social Credit System The Diplomat remarked that Western assumptions about the Social Credit System as an Orwellian surveillance system exaggerate its real-life purpose and function.
2020	Social Credit System Private financial credit scoring companies, including Sesame Credit, suspended financial credit ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020	Social Credit System China further improved to 31st place in the Ease of Doing Business index, with claims that the Social Credit System played a significant role in this advancement.
2020	Social Credit System Planned completion date for the nationwide social credit system, though no full-fledged system was actually implemented by this time.
2020	Social Credit System The Supreme People's Court announced that 7.51 million blacklisted judgment defaulters had fulfilled legal obligations and been removed from the judgment defaulter blacklist, representing half of the total blacklisted defaulters.
2020	Government by algorithm US government software ATLAS, running on Amazon Cloud, sparked protests from activists and Amazon employees.
2020	Government by algorithm The UK's Department for Education implemented a statistical algorithm to assign final A-level grades due to the pandemic disrupting traditional examination processes.
2020	Government by algorithm During the COVID-19 pandemic, Westminster High public school used algorithms to assign final grades to students when in-person exams became impossible.
2020	Government by algorithm Stanford University study revealed that 45% of US federal agencies had experimented with AI and machine learning tools by this year.
2020	Government by algorithm UK students protested against algorithmic exam grade assignments under the banner 'Fuck the algorithm', successfully leading to the reversal of the algorithmic grading.
November 2020	Social Credit System The State Council issued Guiding Opinions on improving systems for restraining untrustworthy entities and building long-term credit worthiness mechanisms.
May 2020	Social Credit System Caixin investigative media group published a report highlighting the ineffectiveness of business social credit systems in China.
March 2020	Government by algorithm Deutsche Telekom shared private cellphone data with the Robert Koch Institute to research and prevent virus spread.
March 2020	Government by algorithm Russia deployed facial recognition technology to detect individuals breaking quarantine rules.
March 2020	Government by algorithm Israeli government authorized security agencies to track mobile phone data of potential coronavirus patients to enforce quarantine and protect public health.
February 2020	Government by algorithm China launched a mobile 'close-contact-detector' app to manage coronavirus outbreak, enabling users to enter personal information and detect potential infection risks through surveillance data like public transport records.
February 1 2020	Social Credit System The People's Bank of China temporarily suspended the inclusion of mortgage and credit card payments in credit records for people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019	Social Credit System Central government expresses dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores and issues guidelines preventing punishment based solely on low scores.
2019	Social Credit System Sarah Cook of Freedom House reports that city-level pilot projects for the Social Credit System include rewarding individuals for reporting on religious practices, such as coercing Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs and reporting on Uighurs who publicly practice Islamic traditions.
2019	Social Credit System Beijing government officially announces plans to explore and test a 'Personal Credit Score', with potential negative records for inappropriate behavior in rapid transit systems.
2019	Social Credit System Chinese central government expresses dissatisfaction with pilot cities' social credit score experiments and issues guidelines preventing punishments based solely on low scores.
2019	Social Credit System A Hebei court launched an innovative app that displays a 'map of deadbeat debtors' within a 500-meter radius, encouraging public reporting of potential debtors who could repay their obligations, as part of efforts to enforce court rulings and create a socially credible environment.
2019	Social Credit System High-level NDRC officials reported that over 10% of people blacklisted for tax fraud had repaid taxes, the bad credit rate had decreased by 22.7%, and the proportion of blacklisted companies had decreased.
2019	Government by algorithm Australian government announced suspension of key functions of the Robodebt scheme and initiated a review of all debts raised by the programme.
2019	Government by algorithm IE University's Center for the Governance of Change conducted a poll across European countries exploring public attitudes towards AI making important governmental decisions, finding 25% support across selected nations.
2019	Government by algorithm AI-powered messenger chatbot SAM participated in social media discussions during a New Zealand electoral race, with its creator Nick Gerritsen believing it could run as a candidate by late 2020.
2019	Government by algorithm Contributors of the documentary 'iHuman' expressed concerns about potential 'infinitely stable dictatorships' created by government AI.
November 1 2019	Social Credit System Shenzhen implements traffic violation tracking for residents 14 and older, with negative credit profile records for jaywalking, red-light crossing, and other traffic rule violations. For those under 14, legal guardians may need to complete educational courses or social services.
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