China's nightmarish citizen scores are a warning for Americans

Nightmarish is the perfect adjective for this.

It's reminiscent of the way the Stasi[0] operated. Files on everyone, turn your subversive friends and neighbors in to gain political influence, revenge or just spite. Only in China, it will be automated. AI will determine who is naughty and who is nice. I've always felt Gilliam's Brazil was a true cautionary tale. It looms before us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

I agree that this scoring is a nightmare, and it should be a warning, but I also think this kind of score would cause economic problems. If I understand, credit ratings would depend partly/mostly on correct political expression. Now China's credit rating system is pretty worthless. Nobody can issue a sound loan. There may be other consequences in the same vein.

If George Orwell wrote 1984 in the Information Age, this would be in it.

There are startups working in this area in SF. I interviewed at one.