Facial Recognition A.I. Detects Political Views

Artifical Intelligence knows who you will vote for

Researchers, whose study uncovered artificial intelligence's ability to detect sexual orientation, say it can detect a host of other personal traits as well, including whether if someone is a liberal or conservative. Article

Author of the studies, Michal Kosinski, Standford professor:

Using photos, AI will be able to identify people’s political views, whether they have high IQs, whether they are predisposed to criminal behavior, whether they have specific personality traits and many other private, personal details that could carry huge social consequences, he said.

“The face is an observable proxy for a wide range of factors, like your life history, your development factors, whether you’re healthy,” he said.

                           
                         Michal Kosinski professor of organizational behavior at Standford

Kosinski, an assistant professor of organizational behavior, began his facial recognition quest by studying links between face structure and political preferences. AI was effective at predicting political ideology based on looks, his studies found. 

The study also found that conservative politicians are more attractive than liberals. Even so, AI would be less effective at identifying people in the middle of the political spectrum.  

In the future, artificial intelligence facial recognition will be able to make inferences about things like IQ, criminal tendencies, and personality type.