FACTOR is pleased to announce our next talk in the 2024-2025 academic year by Dr Lena Podoletz (Law, Lancaster University):

TITLE

Emotional AI in action: will it change crime, crime prevention, policing and security, and why this matters?

ABSTRACT

Emotional AI is an emerging technology used to make probabilistic predictions about the emotional states, intentions and attitudes of people utilising data sources, such as facial (micro)-movements, body language, vocal tone or the choice of words. When it comes to using language as such source of data, experimental tools are being developed to detect and, sometimes, even to try and forecast criminal behaviour. Cyberbullying, terrorism and digital forms of hate speech and fraud are some of the main areas where such developments are in the making. At this moment, these tools are still in their very early years. This talk considers their implications for ethics, privacy, human and procedural rights, as well as the existing evidence base for performance.

TIME & PLACE

W05, 1500-1550, Thu 07th Nov 2024, Bowland North SR2. (Please note that this talk will not be streamed or recorded.)

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REGISTRATION

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