Flipboard Tech DeskA Stanford University psychologist has claimed he has built AI that is capable of detecting things like your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy — just by scanning your face.
If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, it’s supposed to. Kosinski says he has created it as a warning that facial recognition technology could have implications for our privacy and civil liberties in the age of artificial intelligence — but why does his research feel like it's just opening Pandora’s Box? Futurism has more.
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