Artificial Intelligence Reveals Fingerprints Aren’t Entirely Unique, Turning 100 Years of Forensic Science on Its Head

Published August 26, 2026

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Daily Galaxy reported on a UB study led by Wenyao Xu that found fingerprints from the same hand have similar patterns of structure. The AI system was trained using fingerprint databases, including one developed by the UB Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors, led by Venu Govindaraju.