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MIT and Harvard Face Scrutiny for Ties to Uyghur Abuse

12/8/2025

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The Strategy Risks and the Human Rights Foundation report finds MIT and Harvard partnered with Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) labs linked to Uyghur abuses.
Since 2020, these labs have co-authored 3,000 papers with Western researchers, enabling mass surveillance and technology transfer to the Chinese Communist Party.
The report criticizes Western AI ethics organizations for their silence from 2020 to 2025 and calls for due diligence and transparency on state-linked collaborations.

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The Strategy Risks and the Human Rights Foundation report finds MIT and Harvard partnered with Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) labs linked to Uyghur abuses.
Since 2020, these labs have co-authored 3,000 papers with Western researchers, enabling mass surveillance and technology transfer to the Chinese Communist Party.
The report criticizes Western AI ethics organizations for their silence from 2020 to 2025 and calls for due diligence and transparency on state-linked collaborations.