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Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire? (economist.com)
3 points by hsuduebc2 10 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments




I guess this allows companies to do it remotely instead of just pulling out a set of calipers and measuring their skulls.

Phrenology is making a comeback.

Yea it's funny how now it is not abandoned field of study known mainly due to Nazis but now it's revolutionary AI candidate filter.

I’m sure all of this software AI starts with skin albedo. Dress stuff in modern clothes, but the people are the same. Shakespeare anticipated this: “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”


If they can show causality and 100% accuracy then maybe; as it stands this is begging for a lawsuit



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