The Ethics of Emulated Empathy: Considering the Significance of Anthropic and Hume’s Collaboration! Dive into this interesting #blog by our AEGIS project! #AI. @digi_ad 📖 https://t.co/X1ONuhJHQy 👉About the project- https://t.co/W0NIFkeNIn

A total pleasure to be a guest on the @BBCRadio4's 'Artificial Human', discussing whether AI can read emotions. The angle on the topic was excellent, as Chris, a listener, had called in asking whether AI can help him understand emotion expressions.

✨ #FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman #SummerSchool: day 4! 🤝 The day kicked off with lectures by speakers @digi_ad and @GazzolaValeria, followed by a roundtable discussion, and wrapped up with a fun bowling dinner! 🎳 #FENSSchool! @_mameli_ @unil @NeuroLeman @ChenInstitute

Interest is growing in use of general purpose AI to empathise, especially through partners, companions, and so on. If you want to know more about the good, bad and the icky of all of this, you might want to join the [free] @IEEEorg lecture below. https://t.co/jREtLJw7Gn

Ive been longing for someone to extend our work on ghostbots to synthetic avatars of the alive, like Abbatars, and here it is! Thanks ⁦@digi_ad⁩ !

New paper :) Here I argue that presence is a crucial factor in human-synthetic interaction, esp. in relation to ghostbots. It explains 'presence' and shows why it matters, esp. for those in governance. It gets weird, but there are v.simple recommendations.

#AI_Act to be noted: "emotional AI for monitoring could arguably discipline an employee if the AI says they sound grumpy on calls, just so long as there’s no inference that they are, in fact, grumpy." @digi_ad @APonceETUI * https://t.co/OE8fn12dJ6

At the EAI Lab we find little evidence for effectiveness of emotional AI tech in a policing or security context, risk of bio-deterministic framings of criminality, deep skepticism from law enforcement (interviews), and high risk in trying to gauge emotion and/or human intent (1).

Most recent paper with @EmotionalAI colleagues 'On Manipulation by Emotional AI: UK Adults’ Views and Governance Implications' published here #biometrics #emotionprofiling #emotoys #manipulation

Great to see @EmotionalAI and Project AEGIS represented by @exLaffer. I'm assuming Alex (in the middle) is just checking his talk notes ;)

Co-edited by the Lab's @mooseabyte with @GratchJonathan, @grgbeal, @RosalindPicard & @MichelValstar, great to see the special issue out on Ethics in Affective Computing https://t.co/airuutlKtg

📢Exciting news! A new white paper titled “AI FRINGE PERSPECTIVES’ is now published, written by a consortium drawn from the attendees of @AISummitFringe with @responsibleaiuk ensuring a diversity of views garnered from the academic community. Download now https://t.co/m6jGiMlMeY

And given the London Underground tests with emotion/intention recognition, my 2023 views for free here in book form!

As it stands, we are yet to see any emotion AI technology develop in a way that satisfies data protection requirements, and have more general questions about proportionality, fairness and transparency in this area. (October 2022)

Much ado but Neuralink yesterday and today, but brain-computer interfaces are at not all new (nor are implants). See below, if interested, for my chapter-length take on neurotech, Neuralink and questions about 'automated empathy'.

And the disinformation section airs today on BBC4.

@EmotionalAI @Ri_Science @wooldridgemike @BangorUni @responsibleaiuk Anyone wanting to scratch the surface of the lecture's section on AI and disinformation can use our book. It's free to download.

@EmotionalAI @Ri_Science @wooldridgemike @BangorUni @responsibleaiuk It was high octane when on, but very chilled backstage. Hope the audience loved it as much as I did when I was in the audience back in the 1980s. I'd forgotten that's what made me want to go to uni and into lecturing!

Early start for the Lab's emotion/false information expert @vianbakir1 who is a guest for the @Ri_Science #XmasLectures being recorded today and given by @wooldridgemike. Enjoy the day Vian! @BangorUni @responsibleaiuk

📚 New book time! 3 years of thinking and writing, leads me to "Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life" with Oxford University Press. 🧠 Oh, and it’s free! (Academics: please get your library to buy a version) https://t.co/obFc0feVyV?