Scientists say AI can tell your politics from a brain scan -- we say it's BS

A team of researchers using what they call "state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques" has reportedly created a system capable of identifying a human's political ideology by viewing their brain scans. This is either the most advanced AI system in the entire known universe or it's a total sham. You don't even have to read the researcher's paper to debunk their work. All you need is the phrase "politics change," and we're done here. But, just for fun, let's actually get into the paper and explain how prediction models work. A team of researchers from Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, and New York University gathered 174 US college students (median age 21) -- the vast majority of whom self-identified as liberal -- and conducted brain scans on them while they completed a short battery of tests.