Pentland’s lab receives funding from rival governments including both the US and China.

Evidence

Pentland’s research lab is funded by a who’s who of global corporations, consultancies, and governments: Google, Cisco, IBM, Deloitte, Twitter, Verizon, the EU Commission, the US government, the Chinese government, “and various entities who are all concerned with why we don’t know what’s going on in the world.…” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1330

Categorization

• SHARE: The juxtaposition of US and Chinese government funding in one academic lab is a striking fact for someone tracking state-industry entanglement.