School Experiment Sparks Scandal

In 2019, students in a Chinese elementary school were given AI headbands that tracked their attention levels in real time during lessons. The internet exploded: users were outraged that schoolchildren were effectively 'plugged into' a control system that invaded their personal space.

🙈 Authorities quickly reacted and suspended the experiment. The developer assured that the devices were only meant to help train concentration and had long been used abroad, but few believed that.

Today, amid the rapid development of AI, this story sounds even more alarming. If the technology scared people back then, what would it be like now, when algorithms have become more powerful and data collection more subtle?