The great strength of contemporary AI is that it can recognize patterns in data that we would not otherwise perceive. But that's also its greatest weakness, because these patterns can be the result of biased data, or spurious correlations. The latter case is especially pernicious. This article considers an example where an AI is used to "analyse the minutiae of a candidate's speech and bodily movements to see how closely they resembled a company's supposed ideal employee." The problem is that the "video and image analysis technology had 'no scientific basis', co-author Dr Eleanor Drage told the BBC News, dismissing it as 'modern phrenology', the false theory skull shape could reveal character and mental faculties." Here's the study by Eleanor Drage & Kerry Mackereth.
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