AI can pick out criminals by looking at their faces • /r/artificial

The thing is, an Israeli company contracted by their government is planning to use exactly this sort of thing for profiling potential criminals, and yes that's mad. As to the correlation, in psychology there is a known cognitive bias called "the horns effect". It describes that a person who has ugly or anger-like features will be considered bad by default, and in at least partial ways treated as such. Being treated more negatively throughout one's life has obvious effects. However, someone can wear the same face for decades without murdering anyone, or wear the same face for decades after redeeming oneself, so all this is is unreliable prejudice. And as I originally pointed out: The issue may easily be due to a biased training set with photos of incarcerated criminals ordered to pose vs normal people asked to pose.