The new frontier for AI—in China, at least—is the pigpen.

In August, the Chinese government released a report praising the trend of “Smart pig raising,” highlighting the need for the pork industry to embrace the “ABCDs,” which naturally, stand for Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. Now, according to The New York Times, the government is leaning even harder into pig tech—specifically, facial recognition technology—to combat a new epidemic of swine fever in the country’s pig population.

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