AI can now tell if you're a criminal or not

Through machine learning, researchers have repeated the historic criminology experiment of telling criminals apart from law-abiding people using facial recognition. Physiognomy, the ability to judge a person's character from appearance alone, has been around since ancient Greece and was widely accepted by philosophers. Although the theory has generally been disbanded, studies still crop up now and again. Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang, Chinese researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, released a controversial paper on arXiv, an online open-sourced pre-print journal – it has not been published officially. They have singled out three features that can supposedly tell if a person is more likely to be a delinquent or not by probing upper lip curvature, eye inner corner distance, and the angle from nose tip to two mouth corners (nose-mouth angle). It's bad news for those who have smaller mouths, curvier upper lips and closer-set eyes, as you look more like a crook, apparently.