AI's Ethical Dilemma – An Unexpectedly Urgent Problem

Summary: In just the last 10 months based only on facial characteristics deep learning has been used to predict who is a criminal and who is gay. These are rigorous, peer reviewed studies published in academic journals. How should this knowledge be used and how will the public react? Were you as freaked out as I was when earlier this month two well qualified data scientists from Stanford said they could predict whether someone is gay or straight from just their picture? I am a solid technology optimist but in just the last 10 months data scientists have used deep learning AI to predict not only sexual orientation but also whether someone is a criminal??