Wednesday, August 7, 2024

FutureWatch: Eavesdropping on YOU, by Looking at Your Face

A Stanford University psychologist named Michal Kosinski claims that AI he's built can detect your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy just by scanning your face,
Business Insider reports.

Though Kosinski says his research should be seen as a warning, his work can feel more like a Pandora Box. Many of the use cases for his research seems pretty bad (like AI security scanners and robcops), and simply publishing about them may inspire new tools for discrimination. (Oops, forget what I just said.)

There's also the issue that the models aren't 100 percent accurate (yet), which could lead to people getting wrongly targeted. (e.g. Being a treehugger is not a sexual preference.) more