{"id":11470,"date":"2020-06-28T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2020-06-28T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T13:45:33","slug":"an-algorithm-that-predicts-criminality-based-on-a-face-sparks-a-furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/an-algorithm-that-predicts-criminality-based-on-a-face-sparks-a-furor\/11470\/","title":{"rendered":"An Algorithm That \u2018Predicts\u2019 Criminality Based on a Face Sparks a Furor"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Wired.com, June 24, 2020 Its creators said they could use facial analysis to determine if someone would become a criminal. Critics said the work recalled debunked \u201crace science.\u201d In early May, a press release from Harrisburg University claimed that two professors and a graduate student had developed a facial-recognition program that could predict whether someone would be a criminal. The release said the paper would be published in a collection by Springer Nature, a big academic publisher. With \u201c80 percent accuracy and with no racial bias,\u201d the paper, A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/an-algorithm-that-predicts-criminality-based-on-a-face-sparks-a-furor\/11470\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Wired.com, June 24, 2020 Its creators said they could use facial analysis to determine if someone would become a criminal. Critics said the work recalled debunked \u201crace science.\u201d In early May, a press release from Harrisburg University claimed that two professors and a graduate student had developed a facial-recognition program that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,878,1075,243,8],"class_list":["post-11470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-facial-recognition","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11471,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions\/11471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}