What if Zoom Could Read Your Facial Expression?

Right now, companies are developing and selling AI products intended to tell your boss, or your teacher, how you're feeling while on camera. Emotion AI is supposedly capable of taking our expressions and micro-expressions, capturing them via computer vision, and then spitting out some sort of score that says whether someone's engaged with what's being said in a virtual classroom or even responding well to a sales pitch. But what's unclear is how well--or whether--it really works. On Friday's episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Kate Kaye, a reporter for Protocol, about whether AI really know what you're feeling. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.