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Over 1k AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime
- uberman 6y agoThe field of "anthropological criminology" is bogus. The notion that the shape of your face can predict future crime is as grossly absurd today as was when people thought the shape of your ears would do so 200 years ago. Today's practitioners of "anthropological criminology" walk a slippery slope to "eugenics" just as their predecessors did in the 1930s. The per-capita consumption of mozzarella cheese correlates almost perfectly with the number of civil engineering doctorates awarded" between 2000 and 2009 (http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations). Would you be willing to use one to predict the other in 2020? That is essentially what these researchers believe their face matching magic can do.