{"id":113241,"date":"2020-09-21T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/artificial-intelligence-has-become-a-tool-for-classifying-and-ranking-people"},"modified":"2020-09-21T04:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:22:22","slug":"artificial-intelligence-has-become-a-tool-for-classifying-and-ranking-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/artificial-intelligence-has-become-a-tool-for-classifying-and-ranking-people","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Has Become A Tool For Classifying And Ranking People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-has-become-a-tool-for-classifying-and-ranking-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recommending content, powering chatbots, trading stocks, detecting medical conditions, and driving cars. These are only a small handful of the most well-known uses of artificial intelligence, yet there is one that, despite being on the margins for much of AI\u2019s recent history, is now threatening to grow significantly in prominence. This is AI\u2019s ability to classify and rank people, to separate them according to whether they\u2019re \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d in relation to certain purposes.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Western civilization hasn\u2019t reached the point where AI-based systems are used <em>en masse<\/em> to categorize us according to whether we\u2019re likely to be \u201cgood\u201d employees, \u201cgood\u201d customers, \u201cgood\u201d dates and \u201cgood\u201d citizens. Nonetheless, all available indicators suggest that we\u2019re moving in this direction, and that this is regardless of whether Western nations consciously decide to construct the kinds of social credit system currently being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/613027\/chinas-social-credit-system-isnt-as-orwellian-as-it-sounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"developed by China\">developed by China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This risk was highlighted at the end of September, when it emerged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/09\/27\/ai-facial-recognition-used-first-time-job-interviews-uk-find\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"an AI-powered system\">an AI-powered system<\/a> was being used to screen job candidates in the U.K. for the first time. Developed by the U.S.-based HireVue, it harnesses machine learning to evaluate the facial expressions, language and tone of voice of job applicants, who are filmed via smartphone or laptop and quizzed with an identical set of interview questions. HireVue\u2019s platform then filters out the \u201cbest\u201d applicants by comparing the 25,000 pieces of data taken from each applicant\u2019s video against those collected from the interviews of existing \u201cmodel\u201d employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommending content, powering chatbots, trading stocks, detecting medical conditions, and driving cars. These are only a small handful of the most well-known uses of artificial intelligence, yet there is one that, despite being on the margins for much of AI\u2019s recent history, is now threatening to grow significantly in prominence. This is AI\u2019s ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}