And here we have a paper published in the IEEE Conference on Advanced Computer Control on classifying three ethnic minority groups which have been oppressed in China back in 2010: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5487194

I do my best not to call out specific research/researchers by name around larger cultural issues in AI, but this specific piece really indicates a troubling lack of broader implications in AI research that has directly contributed to an arc of APPLIED AI-based oppression.

I also understand there was a lot at play here. (1) There is an understandable lack of foresight in formalized government oppression of these groups, which NYT reported going back to 2013, not 2010.

(2) Reviewers of the paper might have been unaware of views on these groups without more modern reporting on these issues. In a US context, we are only just learning about this thanks to journalists.

But given the physiognomic detail of classifying these minority groups alongside what is currently happening in China, I really worry about this paper being out there.