Brian Stauffer for BI
Michal Kosinski knows exactly how he sounds when he talks about his research. And how it sounds is not great.
A psychologist at Stanford University, Kosinski is a specialist in psychometrics — a field that attempts to measure the facets of the human mind. For more than a decade, his work has freaked people right the hell out. In study after study, Kosinski has made scarily plausible claims that machine-learning algorithms of artificial intelligence can discern deeply private things about us ...