A.I. Can Tell if Someone is Gay

A.I. "Gaydar" detects sexual orientation with 91% accuracy

AI has the ability to detect gayness with advanced facial imaging. It distinguished between gay and straight men with higher accuracy rate than for the women. Artificial intelligence outperformed human perceptions by a significant margin and does so by analyzing the facial structures of human images.

A certain danger exists here. What if artificial intelligence makes sexual orientation a part of someone's profile without consent, especially if that person doesn't necessarily want that information widely known. And what else do our facial structures say about us?

It may be possible that this the first step into a "Minority Report" future. In the Tom Cruise film, the technology could determine if a crime was about to be committed and by whom. The Cruise character had the authority to arrest people before any criminal act occurred.

Technological facial recognition is being developed as a security tool, but along the way, it will pick up more information about a person than is needed for identification. Is that necessary?