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AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face


A new peer-reviewed study says that facial recognition technology can accurately "read" a person's political affiliation just by looking at their face.

Researchers justify this assessment by pointing to the ways in which social expectations relative to physical appearances can influence personality development: ...facial appearance can shape psychological traits...People largely agree when judging political orientation from faces (Todorov et al., 2015). “We demonstrate that political orientation can be predicted from neutral facial images by both humans and algorithms, even when factors like age, gender, and ethnicity are accounted for.

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