Between autonomous police dog robots, facial recognition cameras that let you pay for groceries with your smile and bots that can write Wordsworthian sonnets in the style of Taylor Swift, it is beginning to feel like AI can do just about anything. This week, a new capability has been added to the list: A group of researchers in Switzerland say they’ve developed an AI model that can tell if you’re gay or straight. 

The group has built a deep learning AI model that they say, in their peer-reviewed paper, can detect the sexual orientation of cisgender men. The researchers report that by studying subjects’ electrical brain activity, the model is able to differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual men with an accuracy rate of 83%. 

“This study shows that electrophysiological trait markers of male sexual orientation can be identified using deep learning,” the researchers write, adding that their findings had “the potential to open new avenues for research in the field.”

The authors contend that it “still is of high scientific interest whether there exist biological patterns that differ between persons with different sexual orientations” and that it is “paramount to also search for possible functional differences” between heterosexual and homosexual people.