Given that this will be the next major quackery (or fraudulent profiteering) in #CriminalJustice practice and #policing we need a greater #CriticalAILiteracy in #Criminology.
We largely failed with #polygraphy but if we do not tackle this the resulting fuckery will be insidious and lasting!
Dr J Warr
Can #AI read personality, emotions, or criminality from the face? In this paper, Päivi Seppälä and I examine some such controversial AI applications and argue that in many cases, they are best understood as social pseudotechnologies. You can read the article here for free!
#pseudoscience #philosophy
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Facial analysis AI applications have recently come under heavy criticism. They have been accused, for instance, of being discriminative, racist, and...