The Stanford research who made headlines in 2017 for designing an AI that uses 'facial landmarks' to determine a person's sexual preference is back with what may be another controversial system.

Researchers used a sample of 1,085,795 participants from the US, Canada and the UK, along with their self-reported political orientation, age and gender. .

The Stanford research who made headlines in 2017 for designing an AI that uses 'facial landmarks' to determine a person's sexual preference (pictured) is back with what may be another controversial system .

Researchers used a sample of 1,085,795 participants from the US, Canada and the UK, along with their self-reported political orientation, age and gender. When it came to identifying US images the AI was 72% accurate

The highest predictive power was afforded by head orientation (58 percent), followed by emotional expression (57 percent)

'In other words, a single facial image reveals more about a person's political orientation than their responses to a fairly long personality questionnaire, including many items ostensibly related to political orientation (e.g., 'I treat all people equally' or 'I believe that too much tax money goes to support artists'),' the study reads