
How China is using AI to hunt American SPIES: Beijing's shadowy Ministry of State Security deploys powerful software to create instant dossiers on US visitors to weed out enemy agents in 'new Cold War' with the CIA
Published on December 28, 2023

- China's Ministry of State Security is the country's most sophisticated spy agency
- MSS is using facial recognition and AI to track American agents in Beijing
- China has also stepped up recruitment of agents, including US citizens
China's premier intelligence agency is using AI to track American spies and others in Beijing's embassy district, according to a new report highlighting the agency's growing Cold War-style rivalry with the CIA.
The Ministry of State Security (MSS) was once overshadowed by Chinese military intelligence units, but has grown in reputation and prowess to become the country's top spy agency.
Powerful and well-funded, the MSS combines the CIA's mission of foreign surveillance with the FBI's mandate of domestic counterintelligence, all in one overtly political agency explicitly devoted to protecting China's Communist Party.
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