A.I. Predicting Political Orientation
As technology grows more advanced, advancements in elements such as artificial intelligence organically will follow. New research from the journal American Psychologist has found that AI can predict a person's political orientation based on their face with incredibly accuracy . In this experiment, A.I. used a facial recognition algorithm called "VGGFace2", and it captured " a numerical "fingerprint" of their faces and compared them to a database of their responses to predict their views" (Norman, 2024). Although this new advancement may seem innocent in a surface level approach, it is quite an invasion of privacy. Politicians and political actors already rely on algorithmic information to target specific individuals to spread their agenda, and this advancements makes it even easier for these individuals to scheme their way into people's feeds and personal lives. As stated by Kosinski, "a lgorithms can be very easily applied to millions of peo...
