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In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?
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In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?

Part two of a series on emotion AI

MIT Technology Review Narrated

October 7, 202024m 38s

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Show Notes

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.