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In this podcast episode, Dr. Marianne Brandon and Dr. Abraham Morgentaler discuss a study showing how AI and smell can reveal a person’s political orientation.
- 0:15 – Revealing Scents: Dr. Brandon and Dr. Morgentaler discuss how smell, AI, and facial recognition can reveal political orientation, even when people think their beliefs are private.
- 3:18 – Politics: They say that many subtle, often unnoticed factors shape our political beliefs.
- 4:33 – Evolution’s Role: Dr. Morgentaler explains that evolution may have given humans the ability to detect others’ ideologies through smell to find compatible mates.
- 5:58 – Facial Recognition: Dr. Morgentaler highlights that facial recognition can now predict voting preferences, raising concerns about privacy and AI’s influence.
Resources
Kaczynski, M. (2024). Facial recognition technology can predict political orientation. American Psychologist. https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html
