A college senior used AI to try and disprove the long-held belief that all fingerprints are unique

• An undergrad is using artificial intelligence to try and disprove that every fingerprint is unique.
• The AI model discovered similarities between different finger prints belonging to the same person.
• But the study has drawn some pushback from the forensics community. 

After an innocuous conversation about fingerprints with a college professor ahead of his freshman year, a now-senior at Columbia University set about using artificial intelligence to disrupt a long-held belief about the individuality of a human being's fingerprints.