{"id":195377,"date":"2024-08-29T04:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientist-claims-his-ai-can-tell-disturbing-things-about-you-just-by-looking-at-your-face"},"modified":"2024-08-29T04:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:22:41","slug":"scientist-claims-his-ai-can-tell-disturbing-things-about-you-just-by-looking-at-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientist-claims-his-ai-can-tell-disturbing-things-about-you-just-by-looking-at-your-face","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-claims-his-ai-can-tell-disturbing-things-about-you-just-by-looking-at-your-face2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Stanford University psychologist named Michal Kosinski claims that AI he\u2019s built can detect your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy just by scanning your face, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oppenheimer-artificial-intelligence-michal-kosinski-predict-facial-recognition-2024-7\" class=\"\"><em>Business Insider<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Kosinski\u2019s work raises many ethical questions. Is this type of facial recognition research just a high-tech version of phrenology, a pseudoscience popular in the 18th and 19th centuries that sought to find links between facial features and their mental traits?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not, Kosinski told <em>Business Insider<\/em>. If anything, he says his work on facial recognition is a warning to policymakers about the potential dangers of his research and similar work by others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stanford University psychologist named Michal Kosinski claims that AI he\u2019s built can detect your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy just by scanning your face, Business Insider reports. Needless to say, Kosinski\u2019s work raises many ethical questions. Is this type of facial recognition research just a high-tech version [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}