The Emotional AI Lab Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) Michael Wooldridge Bangor University Responsible Ai UK 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!

And the disinformation section airs today on BBC4.

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'. academic.oup.com/book/55102/cha…

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) ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

Many problems, but detecting "aggressive" behaviour is v.notable. Esp' a problem for folk with dark skin (black people with neutral expressions more likely to be labeled angry). ICO got ahead of this issue (we inputted) so time to put that policy to work. wired.com/story/london-u…

And given the London Underground tests with emotion/intention recognition, my 2023 views for free here in book form! academic.oup.com/book/55102

📢Exciting news! A new white paper titled “AI FRINGE PERSPECTIVES’ is now published, written by a consortium drawn from the attendees of AI Fringe with Responsible Ai UK ensuring a diversity of views garnered from the academic community. Download now rai.ac.uk/publications

UNESCO’s Ethics of AI team is recruiting! We're looking for 6 experts to contribute to cutting-edge projects on the ethical governance of AI across the following workstreams (please note the deadlines for applications are 16-17 April):

Great to see The Emotional AI Lab and Project AEGIS represented by Alex Laffer. I'm assuming Alex (in the middle) is just checking his talk notes ;)

This #ReviewoftheWeek centers on emotional #AI, evaluating the ethics of “contemporary technologies designed to emulate, interpret, and express empathy" in Andrew McStay's "Automating Empathy" from Oxford Academic: ow.ly/5EHG50RKogG #Empathy #AIEthics

Most recent paper with The Emotional AI Lab colleagues 'On Manipulation by Emotional AI: UK Adults’ Views and Governance Implications' published here #biometrics #emotionprofiling #emotoys #manipulation frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#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." Andrew McStay Aida Ponce Del Castillo * amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…

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. doi.org/10.1007/s10676…

Ive been longing for someone to extend our work on ghostbots to synthetic avatars of the alive, like Abbatars, and here it is! Thanks ⁦Andrew McStay⁩ ! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

There's right and easy criticism/concern here (privacy, mining, security, etc.) but, IMV, we shouldn't miss neurophenomenology (overlap of biology/experience). See here: academic.oup.com/book/55102/cha…

✨ #FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman #SummerSchool: day 4! 🤝 The day kicked off with lectures by speakers Andrew McStay and Valeria Gazzola, followed by a roundtable discussion, and wrapped up with a fun bowling dinner! 🎳 #FENSSchool! @_mameli_ Université de Lausanne NeuroLéman Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute

A total pleasure to be a guest on the BBC Radio 4'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. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The Ethics of Emulated Empathy: Considering the Significance of Anthropic and Hume’s Collaboration! Dive into this interesting #blog by our AEGIS project! #AI. Andrew McStay 📖rai.ac.uk/the-ethics-of-… 👉About the project- rai.ac.uk/research/impac…