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How government use of AI could hurt democracy

AI could automate some government paperwork, but it comes with serious risks
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Many countries are exploring how artificial intelligence might help with everything from processing taxes to determining welfare benefits. But a survey shows citizens are not as enthusiastic as their governments – and this can create real risks for democracy.
“Focusing only on short-term efficiency gains and shiny technology risks triggering public backlash and contributing to a long-term decline in democratic trust and legitimacy,” says Alexander Wuttke at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.
Wuttke and his colleagues asked around 1200 people in the UK to share their feelings about government actions where either a human or an AI handled the task. These hypothetical scenarios included processing tax returns, approving or rejecting welfare applications and making risk assessments about whether defendants should be eligible for bail.
Some people were only told about how AI could improve government efficiency – but others learned about both AI-related benefits and risks. These risks included difficulty in understanding how AI decisions are made, growing government dependence on AI that becomes less reversible over time and a lack of clear paths for citizens to contest and correct AI decisions.
When people became aware of AI-related risks, they reported both a significant decline in their trust in government and a feeling of losing control. For example, the percentage of participants reporting loss of democratic control in their government increased from 45 per cent to more than 81 per cent in scenarios where the government became increasingly dependent on AI for handling specific tasks.
The proportion of people demanding less AI in government also sharply increased once participants learned about the risks – rising from under 20 per cent in the baseline scenario to more than 65 per cent in any scenario where they learned about both the benefits and risks of government using AI.
Despite these results, democratic governments could make use of AI in responsible ways that retain citizens’ trust, says Hannah Quay-de la Vallee at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington DC. But she says there are few success stories of AI in government so far. Meanwhile, there are already “quite a few failure cases” – and the stakes of these cases can be incredibly high.
For example, US state efforts to automate the processing of public benefits claims have led to tens of thousands of people being wrongly charged for fraud. Some of those people ended up having to file for bankruptcy or lose their homes. “Government mistakes have enormous, long-reaching impacts,” says Quay-de la Vallee.
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Shandong Inspur Intelligent Building Technology Showcases AI-Driven Solutions at BEX Asia 2025

SINGAPORE, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Shandong Inspur Intelligent Building Technology Co., Ltd. (“Inspur Intelligent Building”), a leading provider of smart building solutions, took center stage at BEX Asia 2025, unveiling its latest advancements in AI-powered smart building systems. Organized by leading global event management company Reed Exhibitions, the exhibition opened on September 3, 2025, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore.
As one of the largest specialized building and construction exhibitions in Southeast Asia, this year’s edition introduced an innovative “four-in-one” exhibition format, co-locating InnoBuild, MCE Asia, and Smart Cities & Building Asia. Centered around the core themes of “Productivity, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, and Intelligence”, the integrated events brought together resources from across the construction ecosystem to build a professional platform for technology exchange, trend exploration and partnership development.
BEX Asia 2025 attracted over 3,000 global leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers across more than 150 exhibition booths. During the event, industry frontrunners expressed strong interest in fostering dialogue on innovation and accelerating the transition to a more sustainable and connected built environment. As a leader in smart building transformation, Inspur Intelligent Building showcased its latest breakthroughs and real-world applications in the integration of artificial intelligence and building technologies, offering scalable, future-ready solutions for developers, owners, and operators.
At the exhibition, Inspur Intelligent Building showcased its integrated applications of AI across the building lifecycle:
- Modular Building Systems: Combining efficient prefabrication, flexible assembly, and intelligent adaptation to deliver cost-effective residential and commercial spaces, reinforcing competitiveness in global markets and the company’s commitment to sustainable building practices;
- AI-Enhanced Design Automation: Enabling human-machine collaboration to standardize and streamline construction design processes;
- Intelligent Site Management Platform: Incorporating AI-powered image recognition, advanced query tools, building information modeling (BIM), and point-cloud imaging to enable real-time project monitoring and precision management of project resources;
- Smart Living Solutions: Delivering a unified IoT platform for whole-home connectivity and intelligent automation, enhanced by large AI models to create personalized occupant experiences;
- Sustainable Building Technologies: Offering a cloud-edge product suite including AI-driven energy optimization, energy and carbon management platforms, and AI edge workstations, designed to help clients reduce energy use and carbon footprint.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors from Singapore, Europe, Southeast Asia and other global markets engaged with Inspur Intelligent Building’s technical team to explore its comprehensive portfolio for AI-assisted design, green building systems, energy and carbon management platforms, smart campus and industrial park systems, intelligent construction sites, and prefabricated steel structures. Live demonstrations and case studies illustrated the company’s engineering expertise and real-world applications, earning positive recognition from industry partners.
This first appearance at BEX Asia 2025 marked an important milestone in Inspur Intelligent Building’s international expansion and opened new growth opportunities in Southeast Asia. Looking ahead, the company plans to continue investing in R&D for AI-enabled smart building technologies, grow its solution ecosystem, and accelerate international growth—supporting the digital, intelligent, and sustainable transformation of the built environment worldwide.
Source: Shandong Inspur Intelligent Building Technology Co., LTD.
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China Telecom Global Shines at the 10th Belt and Road Summit, Empowering the New Silk Road via AI for Good
HONG KONG, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — From September 10 to 11, 2025, the 10th Belt and Road Summit was successfully held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. China Telecom Global (CTG) participated prominently under the theme “Empowering the New Silk Road via AI for Good,” highlighting three core areas: the OneGrowth Global Partnership Initiative, AI global capabilities, and AI-driven applications. Through multiple benchmark cases, interactive scenarios, and physical displays, the exhibition systematically presented China Telecom’s cloud-network-intelligence-computing resource deployment and innovative AI applications along the Belt and Road, fully demonstrating its comprehensive strength and firm commitment to promoting regional collaborative development through digital technologies.
On the first day of the event, Ms. Wu Ting, AI Director of China Telecom Global, delivered a keynote speech titled “China Telecom Global: AI Blueprint and Capabilities”. She comprehensively presented CTG’s AI capabilities and architectural framework, highlighting a series of innovative achievements and practical applications in artificial intelligence. These included several cutting-edge AI products such as the OneTouch AI Engine, LLM Guardrail Platform, Enterprise No Code Agent Platform, and more, demonstrating CTG’s leading strength in artificial intelligence research and development and industrial application. Additionally, leveraging multiple demonstrated cases, she provided in-depth insights into CTG’s competitive advantages in building international digital infrastructure and delivering intelligent solutions for enterprises expanding globally.
At the summit, CTG featured a range of interactive highlights centered on its OneGrowth Global Partnership Initiative and global AI capabilities, comprehensively demonstrating its strength in AI+ technologies and ecosystem collaboration.
Empowering AI, Intergrow as One: Co-creating a New Digital Ecosystem
In the ” OneGrowth Global Cooperation Initiative” section, CTG highlighted its recently launched cooperation plan with a focus on three key ecological directions: AI+ Intelligent Empowerment, AI+ Comprehensive Mobile Global Cooperation, and AI+ Innovative Business, all guided by the four core principles of co-creation, sharing, co-governance, and win-win. The AI+ Intelligent Empowerment initiative is developing a global ecosystem computing power scheduling platform that integrates intelligent and general computing services while collaborating with partners to build scenario-based digital enablement platforms. The AI + Comprehensive Mobile Global Cooperation leverages a multidimensional mobile network covering “land-sea-air-space,” promoting cooperation in 5G, satellite communications, and Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Meanwhile, AI+ Innovative Business featured collaborations in visual network, exemplified by the transnational SeeLink Global Platform, which integrates AI algorithms, devices, cloud services, and applications to provide end-to-end solutions tailored to diverse customer needs.
Application in Action, Leadership in Intelligence, Interactive Demos Showcasing Technological Strength
In the “AI Global Capabilities” section, beyond showcasing its global digital infrastructure, the exhibit provided a clear overview of its resource network—including 53 submarine cables, 251 international PoPs (Points-of-Presence), and 15 overseas data centers. It also highlighted the capabilities and advantages of two major computing power engines: the AI data centers in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China and Jakarta, Indonesia. These demonstrate CTG’s core strength in reinforcing the foundation of the “Digital Silk Road” and supporting regional enterprises through digital transformation.
CTG prominently spotlighted its AI solutions and benchmark cases, including 5GC scenario applications and low-altitude economy service system. Through global applications such as supporting Chinese automotive companies expanding into Europe and assisting game developers in global operations, CTG demonstrated its deep practical achievements across Belt and Road markets. These cases underscore the company’ leading strength in driving industrial digital transformation and facilitating the global expansion of services.
Meanwhile, at the AI interactive experience and physical exhibition zone, CTG featured engaging activities such as AI-powered opera face-changing, a 5GC-enabled robotic dog, and the Tianshu drone. By seamlessly integrating traditional culture with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, CTG vividly demonstrated its innovative capabilities and technological expertise in cutting-edge fields such as 5G, AI, the Internet of Things, and the low-altitude economy. The interactive displays attracted extensive on-site participation and drew significant audience engagement.
During the summit, CTG engaged in on-site discussions with customers and partners from around the world to explore new opportunities within the Belt and Road digital economy. Moving forward, CTG will continue to leverage its strengths in cloud-network resources, AI technologies, and global services to provide efficient and reliable digital solutions for countries and regions along the route, further advancing the development of the “Digital Silk Road” to new heights.
Through its participation, CTG has fully demonstrated its capabilities as a world-class provider of digital-intelligent technology services in resource integration, technological innovation, and ecosystem influence. This exhibition underscored the company’s firm commitment to empowering high-quality development along the Belt and Road and co-creating a smart future through technological innovation.
SOURCE China Telecom Global
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ePlus Subsidiary OneCloud Acquires Realwave to Expand AI-Driven Data & Video Analytics

ePlus announced that its subsidiary, OneCloud Consulting, has acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Realwave, a software company offering cloud-based, AI-powered, automated data analysis that can integrate with data sources, including video or point-of-sale systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, sensors, digital locks and more.
The acquired assets strengthen ePlus’ growing portfolio of AI-enabled, data and deep learning solutions and services, expanding its ability to serve customers with AI-powered technologies.
By merging cameras and IoT capabilities with other sensor data, Realwave can automatically detect events, make decisions, and trigger business process automation without human intervention.
The incorporation of automated and intelligent data and video capabilities opens up a wide range of ePlus supported AI-based applications for customer organizations across retail, transportation, healthcare, financial, campus environments and more. The Realwave platform pulls information from a variety of data sources, translates it into a common format, and then combines the data to produce actionable insights. Bringing this level of real-time, practical data analysis to our customers demonstrates our commitment to continuing to build out our capabilities.
Ken Farber, President of ePlus Software
This transaction is consistent with our defined strategy of making targeted investments that help fuel our growth through expansion and enhancement of our technology solutions and services. Building our capabilities, especially around growing areas such as AI, cybersecurity, data center technology and consulting and managed services will help us continue to provide our customers with the support, engagement and service excellence they expect from ePlus in a rapidly changing landscape
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