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.

AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?

October 06, 2020 0:23:53 0.0 MB Downloads: 0

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.