Written by Mark Purdy, John Zealley and Omaro Maseli on Harvard Business Review.
“Because of the subjective nature of emotions, emotional AI is especially prone to bias. For example, one study found that emotional analysis technology assigns more negative emotions to people of certain ethnicities than to others. Consider the ramifications in the workplace, where an algorithm consistently identifying an individual as exhibiting negative emotions might affect career progression.
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In short, if left unaddressed, conscious or unconscious emotional bias can perpetuate stereotypes and assumptions at an unprecedented scale.”
Read ‘The Risks of Using AI to Interpret Human Emotions’ on the Harvard Business Review site.