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AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?

AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?

FromIn Machines We Trust


AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?

FromIn Machines We Trust

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Oct 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the implications of how it’s used and where it’s heading in the future.

We meet: 
Shruti Sharma, VSCO 
Gabi Zijderveld, Affectiva
Tim VanGoethem, Harman
Rohit Prasad, Amazon
Meredith Whittaker, NYU's AI Now Institute

Credits: This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Karen Hao, Tate Ryan-Mosley, and Emma Cillekens. We had help from Benji Rosen. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield. 
Released:
Oct 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (83)

A podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review look at what it means to entrust artificial intelligence with our most sensitive decisions.