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Blake, Wm. Hamlet and His Father's Ghost, object 5. 1825.

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Researchers have discovered that AI can predict political views simply from expressionless facial images. A study involved 591 participants filling out a political orientation questionnaire before AI analyzed their faces and compared them to a database of their responses to predict their views.

For instance, the study found that conservatives tended to have larger lower faces, while liberals had smaller lower faces. Liberals’ lips and noses were also often shifted downward, and their chins tended to be smaller. There were no obvious differences in facial expression, grooming, skin color, or head orientation.

A psychologist noted the algorithm’s ability to accurately guess one’s political views is “on par with how well job interviews predict job success, or alcohol drives aggressiveness.”