Facing Facts: Artificial Intelligence and the Resurgence of Physiognomy, Undark Magazine's 2017 feature, is science journalism critiquing artificial intelligence papers that claim to infer criminality or personal traits from facial features as physiognomy restated in new statistical form. Its strength is that Undark is a magazine of science journalism produced through MIT's Knight Science Journalism program, with editorial standards distinguishing it from an ordinary blog. Its limit is that it is journalism synthesizing and critiquing the underlying research rather than a peer reviewed study itself; the papers it critiques are the primary evidence for the specific claims it discusses.
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Undark Magazine's 2017 feature, the middle tier reflecting science journalism produced through MIT's Knight Science Journalism program with editorial standards distinguishing it from an ordinary blog, weighed against it being journalism synthesizing and critiquing the underlying research rather than a peer reviewed study itself. NotesScience-journalism critique of AI criminality/trait-inference papers as physiognomy in new statistical form.
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AuthorUndark Magazine
PublisherUndark Magazine
Publication Year2017
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