We Have to Stop Doing AI Emotion Recognition

Emotion recognition is a branch of artificial intelligence that aims at identifying emotion in human faces. In the last decade, it has seen increased interest both in academia and the industry, and the market is expected to grow to $85 billion by 2025. It has several applications, most of them at the very least ethically questionable. It allows employers to evaluate potential employees by scoring them on empathy or emotional intelligence, among other traits. It helps teachers remotely monitor students' engagement in schools or while they do classwork at home.