Another one for the “What could go wrong?” series: OpenAI is rolling out age prediction, but if the system isn’t sure it’ll ask you to verify your identity with a selfie through Persona.

Journalist Kashmir Hill has spent years documenting how facial recognition and ID verification systems are turning our faces into permanent login credentials. In doing so, they are eroding anonymity and possibly expanding everyday surveillance.

Through her reporting on tools like Clearview AI in her book Your Face Belongs to Us, Hill shows that once a platform captures your face and your ID, that data can be stored, reused, cross-referenced, or breached.