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- AI could accurately guess a user's personal information — like race, gender, age, and location — based on what they type, a new study says.
- The study's authors say AI can be used to "infer personal data at a previously unattainable scale" and be deployed by hackers.
- "It's not even clear how you fix this problem. This is very, very problematic," one of the study's authors told Wired.
AI could accurately guess sensitive information about a person based on what they type online, according to a new study by researchers at ETH Zurich that was published in October.
This information includes a person's race, gender, location, age, place of birth, job, and more — attributes typically protected under privacy regulations.