Scientists create online games to show risks of AI emotion recognition

It is a technology that has been frowned upon by ethicists: now researchers are hoping to unmask the reality of emotion recognition systems in an effort to boost public debate. Technology designed to identify human emotions using machine learning algorithms is a huge industry, with claims it could prove valuable in myriad situations, from road safety to market research. But critics say the technology not only raises privacy concerns, but is inaccurate and racially biased. A team of researchers have created a website – emojify.info One game focuses on pulling faces to trick the technology, while another explores how such systems can struggle to read facial expressions in context. Their hope, the researchers say, is to raise awareness of the technology and promote conversations about its use.