AI in 2019: A Year in Review

Some US airlines are now even using it instead of boarding passes, claiming it's more convenient. There has also been wider use of affect recognition, a subset of facial recognition, which claims to'read' our inner emotions by interpreting the micro-expressions on our face. As psychologist Lisa Feldman Barret showed in an extensive survey paper, this type of AI phrenology has no reliable scientific foundation. But it's already being used in classrooms and job interviews -- often without people's knowledge. For example, documents obtained by the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology revealed that the FBI and ICE have been quietly accessing drivers license databases, conducting facial-recognition searches on millions of photos without the consent of individuals or authorization from state or federal lawmakers.