Beijing Institute of Technology

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2025: Joint project with the NCSC DiT DZM to improve medical imaging

The Metropolitan Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine and Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) have announced a strategic partnership to develop algorithms that help improve the quality of ultrasound images and improve diagnostic accuracy. In particular, the joint work of Russian and Chinese scientists is aimed at increasing the detection of breast cancer. On April 25, 2025, the chief freelance specialist in radiation and instrumental diagnostics of Moscow, Yuri Vasiliev, announced this. Read more here.

2018: Recruiting schoolchildren to build deadly weapons with artificial intelligence

In November 2018, it became known that the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) recruited a group of schoolchildren to develop weapons using artificial intelligence. For the experimental four-year program, 27 young people under the age of 18 were selected from more than 5 thousand candidates.

We are looking for new qualities, such as creative thinking and the will to fight when faced with problems, "PTI professor told the South China Morning Post on condition of anonymity. "They should have a passion for developing new weapons. They must also be patriots.

China hires' patriotic'schoolchildren to build deadly AI weapons

Teenagers who have joined the autonomous weapons development group must choose specialization, such as engineering, electronics or weapon design. Two scientists, arms specialists, one from the academic world, the other  from the military-industrial complex, will mentor each student throughout the program.

At the end of the course, they will be able to continue working on the program together with the supervisor and ultimately become full-fledged researchers in the field of deadly AI technology.

Eleonore Pauwels of the University of the United Nations is concerned about the training program for AI weapons specialists  in China.

Think about robots that can poison food or deliver toxins using biotechnology, the expert notes.

A spokesman for China's foreign ministry told the South China Morning Post that the department was "very aware" of possible problems with such systems. In April 2018, the Chinese government provided the UN with a memorandum outlining the country's position on these technologies and calling for a broader discussion of the issue. In July 2018, thousands of scientists signed a document with which they promised not to participate in the development of autonomous weapons.^[1]

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