(NewsNation) — Artificial intelligence can determine a person’s political leanings merely by the shape of their face and does so with a high level of accuracy, according to a new study.
The study, co-authored by Stanford University researcher Michal Kosinski, shows that AI can recognize conservatives and liberals simply by considering tiny nuances in facial features with a 70% success rate.
Liberals tend to have smaller, lower faces, while conservatives have larger, wider features, according to the study.
Kosinski, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, said on “The Hill” it is “unsurprising” that thousands of small physical features can be connected to a person’s psychological traits, such as political views.
“What we look like changes how people treat us,” Kosinski said. “And when people treat us differently across your lifetime, this will change your political orientation.”
The Stanford professor said attractive people tend to have higher salaries, are promoted more regularly, receive better grades and are more successful in winning political elections. All of these things tend to affect their facial features over time, Kosinski added.
In addition, one’s political affiliation will affect how one spends their free time, the professor said.
“Whether you’re sitting somewhere in a basement or you’re shooting ducks outside is also going to affect your facial appearance,” Kosinski said.
Kosinski does not believe AI will ever reach a 100% success rate, but he said that experts are seeing the technology becoming “more and more accurate” in predicting our intimate traits.