Job application requiring emotion recognition from AI generated facial expressions

Yes this is after I told them I was autistic (they said they would apply a 'score adjuster' afterwards). Yes it produced the predictable result that I was terrible at it. Here is an example screenshot. 

The job had nothing to do with recognising emotions, it was for a technical role not a people focused one. It just seems ridiculous that they can do this so openly? As I feel like naming and shaming today, this was for a WSP job and the psycometric testing was Arctic Shores. 

 

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  • Why isn't "Sean Connery" among the answers? lol

    Anyway, I don't think AI is a good tool to use for generating "emotions" because the stuff AI generates has a lifeless, unemotional quality to it, even if the image is displaying an exaggerated facial expression.

  • Most jobs do involve dealing with those funny things that walk about on two legs and talk…. in other words people. And an employer has to put lots of them together into a team to produce something people want or are willing to pay for. So it is necessary for the staff to be able to deal with each other. 

    Saying that, I consider the test is discrimination writ large. There is no way the test can "adjust" the score to account for your ability to do something you don’t do. Name and Shame.

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  • Most jobs do involve dealing with those funny things that walk about on two legs and talk…. in other words people. And an employer has to put lots of them together into a team to produce something people want or are willing to pay for. So it is necessary for the staff to be able to deal with each other. 

    Saying that, I consider the test is discrimination writ large. There is no way the test can "adjust" the score to account for your ability to do something you don’t do. Name and Shame.

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