Empathic AI

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Weaponised Empathy: AI Scams and the Nigeria–UK Response

This report presents findings from a three-month interdisciplinary research sprint examining the implications of AI for cybercrime and scams, with a focus on empathic AI …

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Soft law for unintentional empathy: addressing the governance gap in emotion-recognition AI technologies

Despite regulatory efforts, there is a significant governance gap in managing emotion recognition AI technologies and those that emulate empathy. This paper asks: should …

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Andrew McStay
Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai featured image

Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai

Riffing off move fast and break things — the internal motto coined by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg — this paper examines the ethical dimensions of human relationships with AI companions, …

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Andrew McStay
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Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life

Automating Empathy assesses technologies used to gauge how people are feeling. The book begins by historically situating the belief that by reading the body and its expressions one …

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Andrew McStay