I read "Why are HR departments apparently so gullible?" and as someone who has worked in a corporate for 20 years I spotted my underwear. The identification of

I read "Why are HR departments apparently so gullible?" and as someone who has worked in a corporate for 20 years I spotted my underwear. The identification of facial recognition as problematic because of accuracy doesn't match my thinking. I believe that the key issue is that given a set of targets facial recognition systems will find near misses from the wider population of all faces offered as candidates, that they then flag as potential matches. This leads to real world problems (like innocent folks being arrested). Automated essay grading and content recommendation are both very problematic because they do not account for originality and novelty. A lecturer grading an essay that is written my a strong mind from a different culture might be able to recognise and credit a new voice, a learned classifier never will. Similarly content recommenders have us trapped in the same old same old bubble, nothing strikingly new can get through.