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A well-known AR game’s AI company covertly collected nearly 30 billion user environment scans to train spatial recognition AI models, with potential military applications due to ties with a foreign defense industry. This large-scale, hidden data gathering poses significant privacy, ethical, and national security risks, prompting official warnings in China.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves an AI system (AR-based AI models trained on user-collected spatial data) whose development and use could plausibly lead to harm, specifically national security risks and privacy violations. The article does not report actual realized harm but warns of potential misuse of the data for military purposes, which fits the definition of an AI Hazard. The involvement of AI in processing and interpreting the spatial data is explicit, and the potential for harm is credible and significant. Hence, the classification as AI Hazard is appropriate.[AI generated]