Researchers said their 'unbiased' facial recognition could identify potential future criminals — then deleted the announcement after backlash
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Researchers at Harrisburg University announced Tuesday that they had built facial recognition software that could predict whether someone is likely to become a criminal based on a picture of their face, sparking immediate backlash across the internet.
The researchers — including two professors and a Ph.D. student who was a former NYPD officer — claimed that the software had an 80% success rate and "no racial bias." They said the software could "extract minute features in an image that are highly predictive of criminality," but have not published research to back up that claim.
By Thursday morning, Harrisburg University had pulled the web page announcing the new software. The university told Business Insider that "the faculty are updating the paper to address concerns raised."A team of researchers made waves this week with a bold, as-of-yet unsubstantiated claim: They built software, they said, that can predict whether someone is a criminal based on a picture of their face.
In a now deleted press release, Harrisburg University announced that the technology is "capable of predicting whether someone is likely going to be a criminal." The release said the software was built by professors Nathaniel Ashby and Roozbeh Sadeghian alongside NYPD veteran Jonathan Korn, a Ph.D. student.
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