ai phrenology

You'd think they would have moved away from such dangerous foolishness...

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Every few months, another highly educated academic asks: What if I tried doing debunked 18th-century race science, but with AI?

The latest entry into the AI phrenology portfolio comes from a group of economics professors who say they’ve developed a method for algorithmically analyzing a single photo of a person’s face in order to calculate their personality and predict their educational and career outcomes.

Other recent academic forays into AI phrenology—like algorithms that purport to predict a person’s sexuality or the likelihood they will commit a crime based on their facial features—have been widely criticized and debunked. Investigations have also shown that commercial AI tools that claim to measure personality traits are extremely unreliable.

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