There is a growing concern that the widespread use of facial recognition will lead to the dramatic decline of privacy and civil liberties. Facial recognition algorithms can accurately infer gender, age, ethnicity, or emotional state. Pervasive surveillance is not the only risk brought about by facial recognition.
A growing number of studies claim to demonstrate that people can make face-based judgments of honesty, personality, intelligence, sexual orientation, political orientation and violent tendencies. However, the accuracy of the human judgment is relatively low.
Algorithms excel at recognizing patterns in huge datasets that no human could ever process. They are increasingly outperforming us in visual tasks ranging from diagnosing skin cancer to face-based judgments of intimate attributes. Humans may be missing or misinterpreting some of the cues, but their low accuracy does not necessarily represent the limit of what algorithms could achieve.
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Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images