Obviously there are implications for education. "Algorithms excel at recognizing patterns in huge datasets that no human could ever process, and are increasingly outperforming us in visual tasks ranging from... face-based judgments of intimate attributes, such as sexual orientation... and—as shown here—political orientation." Now there will be types of pattern recognition that are actually useful - skills needed to excel at a job, for example - but it's hard for me to see ethical applications for an automated political litmus test.
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