I would qualify these kinds of experiments as ethically dangerous. This is basically a modern form of phrenology. There are already companies in the while which using machine learning to produce "reports" about people based of pictures or videos. (For example companies which facilitate job interviews via video calls.) These models usually end up being nothing short of badly discriminatory.
If for example you would train a machine based on the pictures of the creators of programming languages and the success of said languages you will probably get the conclusion: successful languages need creators with facial hair. Which would result in rejection of languages created by people without a beard or mustache, like women.
I would qualify these kinds of experiments as ethically dangerous. This is basically a modern form of phrenology. There are already companies in the while which using machine learning to produce "reports" about people based of pictures or videos. (For example companies which facilitate job interviews via video calls.) These models usually end up being nothing short of badly discriminatory.
If for example you would train a machine based on the pictures of the creators of programming languages and the success of said languages you will probably get the conclusion: successful languages need creators with facial hair. Which would result in rejection of languages created by people without a beard or mustache, like women.
As I commented in What is your personal Programming ethics?
This question should always be in your head when creating things:
Agreed, see discussion here