Controversial AI judges whether you are a crook based on facial features

The saying goes: 'Never judge a book by its cover,' but that's exactly what new AI technology has been designed to do. A controversial paper has been released, which investigates whether a computer can detect if a human could be a criminal, by analysing their facial features. The results suggest that it is bad news for people with smaller mouths, curvier upper lips and closer-set eyes, as apparently these features suggest you could be a crook. The paper investigates whether a computer can detect if a human could be a criminal, by analysing their facial features. The researchers singled out three features that they suggest can tell whether someone will be a criminal or not – lip curvature, eye inner corner distance, and the angle from the tip of the nose to the corners of the mouth.