August 14, 2023

“Your facial expressions, eye movements, tone of voice, and the way you walk are terrible ways to judge who you are or what you’ll do in the future. Yet millions and millions of dollars are being funneled into developing emotion-detection AI based on bunk science.”

Ella Jakubowska, a senior policy advisor at the Brussels-based organization European Digital Rights, tells me she has yet to hear of “any credible use case” for emotion recognition: “Both [facial recognition and emotion recognition] are about social control; about who watches and who gets watched; about where we see a concentration of power.” 

What’s more, there’s evidence that emotion recognition models just can’t be accurate. Emotions are complicated, and even human beings are often quite poor at identifying them in others. Even as the technology has improved in recent years, thanks to the availability of more and better data as well as increased computing power, the accuracy varies widely depending on what outcomes the system is aiming for and how good the data is going into it. 

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077788/ai-decoding-human-emotions-target-for-regulators/

AI cannot detect human emotions and it cannot predict your future success; however for more than 5 years this technology has gone unregulated and has been on a steady incline in use. 

The talent acquisition industry is exploiting AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Biometric data claiming they can create a skills based workforce and predict probability of success...resulting in once successful people being destitute, homeless.

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