U.S. intelligence officials fear an Abu Dhabi technology company could hand over the genetic data of Americans to China, The New York Times reported Monday.
The company, called G42, does business with Chinese companies, according to the NYT. It can act as a bridge for China’s government to access cutting-edge US technology and the genetic data of millions of Americans, two officials with knowledge of the intelligence reports told the NYT.
G42 consists of several ventures, including a $10 billion technology investment fund, an Arab artificial intelligence (AI) model and a genome sequencing initiative, according to the NYT. Its international investments include the acquisition of more than $100 million worth of shares in Beijing-based TikTok parent ByteDance, Bloomberg reported.
ByteDance maintains an internal committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and company staff used TikTok data to track American journalists who reported on the popular app in 2022, Forbes reported.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a classified profile of G42 CEO Peng Xiao, who was educated in the United States but renounced his citizenship in exchange for one from the United Arab Emirates United, said intelligence officials, according to the NYT.
Xiao ran a United Arab Emirates company called Pax AI, which was involved in monitoring a social media platform called ToTok that US intelligence agencies flagged as a surveillance tool that the U.S. government United Arab Emirates used to monitor the movement and discussions of users, according to the NYT. A 2019 US intelligence assessment revealed that Pax AI had the data collected.
Xiao also had a project called Pegasus that signed a contract with Chinese tech giant Huawei to produce spy technology designed for law enforcement in 2017, according to the NYT. Intelligence agencies have investigated G42’s subsidiary Presight AI, which specializes in selling surveillance technology to global law enforcement agencies, offering software that closely resembles products commonly used by Chinese police forces.
Huawei also helped build the G42’s technology infrastructure, according to the NYT.
G42 has collaborated “with a number of international technology players around the world,” senior executive Talal Al Kaissi told the NYT, citing the company’s talks with Microsoft in late 2022 and its exploration of working with North American companies. -Americans like Cerebras and Nvidia to update the hardware from China.
G42 has also partnered with OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, according to an October press release.
“Leveraging G42’s industry expertise, we aim to empower businesses and communities with effective solutions that resonate with the nuances of the region,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in the press release. “This collaboration lays the groundwork for equitable advances in generative AI worldwide.”
G42, the CIA, Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Post written by Jason Cohen. Reprinted with permission from DCNF.
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