Face-Reading AI Will Tell Police When Suspects Are Hiding Truth
- U.K. tech start-up uses an AI system to detect hidden emotions
- It’s been in talks with police forces in the U.K. and India
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American psychologist Paul Ekman’s research on facial expressions spawned a whole new career of human lie detectors more than four decades ago. Artificial intelligence could soon take their jobs.
While the U.S. has pioneered the use of automated technologies to reveal the hidden emotions and reactions of suspects, the technique is still nascent and a whole flock of entrepreneurial ventures are working to make it more efficient and less prone to false signals.