> But from the beginning there was pushback and more recent work shows there is no reliable correlation between expressions on the face and what we are actually

> But from the beginning there was pushback and more recent work shows there is no reliable correlation between expressions on the face and what we are actually feeling. And yet we have tech companies saying emotions can be extracted simply by looking at video of people’s faces. We’re even seeing it built into car software systems. I've been involved with a startup where the CEO was certain we're only a step away from replacing humans in recruiting healthcare workers with AI analyzing expressions in self-submitted interview videos, as well as analysis of quizzes. I got pushed aside from that startup for being the 'obnixous technical humanist' (which is a caracterization I wear proudly). > AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is made from natural resources and it is people who are performing the tasks to make the systems appear autonomous. I've argued as a technological consultant times and times again that the effort they are spending on automating humans out, would be better spent in making those humans happier and augumenting them with an automated system. The fact that the CEO saw his low level employees as just temporary assets ready to be replaced meant that their life in the company was miserable. > This April, the EU produced the first draft omnibus regulations for AI I digress. I'm wondering what they're plan of action is since it was a European startup and since April we're theoretically pushed away from using AI to gauge candidates and all of their VC investment money came with the promise of 'automating healthcare recruitment and scaling globally'.