Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/06/should-facial-analysis-help-determine-whom-companies-hire

by hsuduebc2 • 8 months ago

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hsuduebc22• 8 months ago

I guess this allows companies to do it remotely instead of just pulling out a set of calipers and measuring their skulls.

tjpnz• 8 months ago

Phrenology is making a comeback.

hsuduebc22• 8 months ago

Yea it's funny how now it is not abandoned field of study known mainly due to Nazis but now it's revolutionary AI candidate filter.

jleyank• 8 months ago

I’m sure all of this software AI starts with skin albedo. Dress stuff in modern clothes, but the people are the same. Shakespeare anticipated this: “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

stevenalowe• 8 months ago

If they can show causality and 100% accuracy then maybe; as it stands this is begging for a lawsuit

Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

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