Physiognomy

  1. A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job

    Article This article discusses HireVue, a technology that uses artificial intelligence to analyze job candidates. The article discusses both favorable and unfavorable...

  2. AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs

    Article This article describes how a Chinese software company tested their emotion recognition software on the Uyghurs, a marginalized ethnic group in...

  3. AI is increasingly being used to identify emotions – here’s what’s at stake

    Article This article discusses some of the issues with Emotion Recognition Technology (ERT). ERT stands on shaky scientific ground and is prone...

  4. Cesare Lombroso

    Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: The Italian physician Cesare Lombroso, one of the first scientific criminologists and a forensic psychiatrist,...

  5. Emotion AI researchers say overblown claims give their work a bad name

    Article This article discusses emotion recognition, the technology used by HireVue to screen job candidates using artificial intelligence. The article discusses the limitations...

  6. 'Every smile you fake' — an AI emotion-recognition system can assess how 'happy' China's workers are in the office

    Article In this article, a Chinese emotion recognition system is described. The developers of this technology claim that their system can...

  7. Physiognomy's New Clothes

    Article In this article, the authors discuss the history of physiognomy, or "scientific racism," and how some machine learning scientists today...

  8. Pitfalls in Machine Learning Research: Reexamining the Development Cycle

    Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: Applied machine learning research has the potential to fuel further advances in data science,...

  9. Reading Quiz 11

    Reading Quiz This reading quiz was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Notre...

  10. Responses to Critiques on Machine Learning of Criminality Perceptions

    Academic Paper In this academic paper and its response, the authors of a controversial paper that uses machine learning to determine criminality...

  11. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Criminal tendency detection from facial images and the gender bias effect

    Academic Paper This retracted academic paper seeks to predict criminality from facial images using deep learning. Other scientists criticize this work as having flawed methods.

  12. The “Criminality from Face” Illusion

    Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: The automatic analysis of face images can generate predictions about a person’s gender,...

  13. We tried the AI software companies like Goldman Sachs and Unilever use to analyze job applicants

    Video In this video, Business Insider explores HireVue, a new AI technology for screening job applicants. The video explains how HireVue...

  14. Your Interview With AI

    Article This article discusses HireVue, an AI-based job hiring platform. The article discusses the ethical concerns surrounding HireVue and HireVue's responses to...