Has AI Gone Too Far? - Automated Inference of Criminality Using Face Images

Summary: This new study claims to be able to identify criminals based on their facial characteristics. Even if the data science is good has AI pushed too far into areas of societal taboos? This isn't the first time data science has been restricted in favor of social goals, but this study may be a trip wire that starts a long and difficult discussion about the role of AI. Has AI gone too far? This might seem like a nonsensical question to data scientists who strive every day to expand the capabilities of AI until you read the headlines created by this just released peer reviewed scientific paper: Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images (Xiaolin Wu, McMaster Univ.