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Emotional AI predicts emotional states, intentions, and attitudes using data like facial movements, body language, vocal tone, or word choice. In crime detection, it's being developed to forecast behaviors like cyberbullying and fraud. This talk explores its ethical, privacy, and rights implications.

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 a 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.