The Perils Of AI Emotion Recognition - AI Summary

New AI tools purport to be able to identify human emotion in images and speech patterns. How it works: Emotion recognition software is meant to do just that -- use decades-old psychological research about how humans express emotions and recognize it in image, video or even in speech. A multidisciplinary team led by University of Cambridge professor Alexa Hagerty recently produced the Emojify Project, which allows users on the web to try out emotion recognition tech for themselves. What they're saying: In a piece published earlier this week in Nature, AI ethicist Kate Crawford argued the technology should be regulated because it can draw "faulty assumptions about internal states and capabilities from external appearances, with the aim of extracting more about a person than they choose to reveal." Last week my Axios colleague Ina Fried broke a story about a digital civil rights group asking Spotify to abandon a technology it has patented to detect emotion, gender and age using speech recognition.