{"id":2006,"date":"2018-12-05T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2018-12-05T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:20:52","slug":"snake-oil-salesman-alex-martin-and-ac-global-risks-remote-risk-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/snake-oil-salesman-alex-martin-and-ac-global-risks-remote-risk-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Oil Salesman Alex Martin and AC Global Risk&#8217;s &#8220;Remote Risk Assessment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2007\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexander-martin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2007 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexander-martin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexander-martin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexander-martin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexander-martin.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Martin (LinkedIn profile)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/11\/25\/voice-risk-analysis-ac-global\/\">&#8220;The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment,&#8221;<\/a> Ava Kofman of <em>The Intercept<\/em> examines &#8220;Remote Risk Assessment,&#8221; a voice stress analysis application being marketed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acglobalrisk.com\">AC Global Risk<\/a>, a San Francisco-based company led by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Alexander Martin. The company characterizes Remote Risk Assessment as &#8220;a sophisticated system that uses unique voice analytics processes to evaluate and quantify distinct characteristics of the human voice related to risk.&#8221; Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AC Global Risk declined to respond to repeated requests for comment for this article. The company also did not respond to a list of detailed questions about how the technology works. In public\u00a0appearances, however, Martin has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BLOOMBERG_20180705_210000_Bloomberg_Technology\">claimed<\/a> that\u00a0the company\u2019s proprietary analytical processes can determine someone\u2019s risk level with greater than 97 percent accuracy&#8230;. Several\u00a0leading audiovisual experts who reviewed\u00a0AC Global Risk\u2019s publicly available materials for The Intercept used the word \u201cbullshit\u201d or \u201cbogus\u201d to describe\u00a0the company\u2019s claims. \u201cFrom an ethical point of view, it\u2019s very dubious and shady to give the impression that recognizing deception from only the voice can be done with any accuracy,\u201d said Bj\u00f6rn Schuller, a professor at the University of Augsburg who has led the field\u2019s major academic challenge event to advance the state of the art in vocal emotion detection. \u201cAnyone who says they can do this should themselves be seen as a risk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment,&#8221; Ava Kofman of The Intercept examines &#8220;Remote Risk Assessment,&#8221; a voice stress analysis application being marketed by AC Global Risk, a San Francisco-based company led by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Alexander Martin. The company characterizes Remote Risk Assessment as &#8220;a sophisticated system that uses unique voice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"category-voice-stress","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}