Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy

Machine learning, for all its benevolent potential to detect cancers and create collision-proof self-driving cars , also threatens to upend our notions of what’s visible and hidden.

It can, for instance, enable highly accurate facial recognition , see through the pixelation in photos , and even—as Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal showed —use public social media data to predict more sensitive traits like someone’s political orientation.

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