<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-219b330 gmail-print-only elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" style="font-size:12px;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;width:565.429px;color:rgb(84,89,95);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border:1px solid rgb(144,164,186);margin:0px;padding:5px 20px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(242,248,255);border-radius:2px"><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><div style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center"><a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/glps-aggregation-of-articles-and-use-of-images-under-the-fair-use-copyright-exception/" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(8,112,147);box-sizing:border-box">guidelines</a>.</div></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-727143e gmail-print-only elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;width:565.429px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border:0px;margin:20px 0px 0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><p style="font-size:15px;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box">Troublingly, some modern AI applications are delving into physiognomy, a set of pseudoscientific ideas that first appeared thousands of years ago with the ancient Greeks. In antiquity, Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician, </span><a href="https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(8,112,147);box-sizing:border-box"><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box">based his decisions</span></a><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"> on accepting students on whether they “looked” gifted. To the philosopher Aristotle, bulbous noses denoted an </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/physiognomy-divination" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(8,112,147);box-sizing:border-box"><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box">insensitive person</span></a><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"> and round faces signaled courage.</span></p><p style="font-size:15px;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"></span></p><div class="elementor elementor-2068184 elementor-location-single" style="font-size:15px;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><div class="elementor-section-wrap" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1922719 gmail-no-print elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" style="border:2px solid rgb(186,188,190);margin:35px 0px;padding:5px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:4px;background-image:url("https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/gray-stripe.png")"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border:0px;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;max-width:1140px"><div class="elementor-row" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;width:541.429px;display:flex"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-36e6bb4" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;display:flex;width:433.143px"><div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;width:433.143px"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:10px;box-sizing:border-box;width:433.143px;display:flex"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-7e5c372 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;width:413.143px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:bold"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;b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