Predicting behavior ...

Bend Over; Techno Chills

Terrorist or pedophile? This start-up says it can out secrets by analyzing faces of course someone will be in charge [...] Yet experts caution there are ethical questions and profound limits to the effectiveness of technology such as this. “Can I predict that you’re an ax murderer by looking at your face and therefore should I arrest you?” said Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington and author of “The Master Algorithm.” “You can see how this would be controversial.” Gilboa said he also serves as the company’s chief ethics officer and will never make his classifiers that predict negative traits available to the general public. Right. Hmm. Maybe the Unabomber was given a bad rap (Ted Kaczynski claimed that "scientific research is a surrogate activity for scientists, and that for this reason "science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research)."