Andrew McStay
AI Ethics and Emotion Recognition: Progressing Values to Governance
Focus
This talk will consider changing governance of AI. Although algorithmic technologies that judge people have long been regulated, 2021 and 2022 have seen introduction and implementation of far-reaching international laws and recommendations. With the European Commission and the United Nations (among others) updating human rights and introducing new law to account for the impact of AI technologies, change is taking place.
As ethics are solidified in law, McStay will explore this through the prism of biometrics, especially those built to gauge and interact with human emotion. Now with hitherto unseen attention from policymakers, emotion recognition is high on legal and data protection agendas. To explore contemporary progression from values to governance, McStay will provide historical context to the technologies, insight on societal attitudes, progressing to highlight key legal changes, ethical weaknesses, and remedies.
About
Andrew McStay is Professor of Digital Life at Bangor University, UK. His most recent book, Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media, examines the impact of technologies that make use of data about affective and emotional life. Director of The Emotional AI Lab, current projects include cross-cultural social analysis of emotional AI in UK and Japan. Non-academic work includes IEEE membership (P7000/7014) and ongoing advising roles for start-ups, NGOs and policy bodies. He has also appeared and made submissions to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on the right to privacy in the digital age, the UK House of Lords AI Inquiry and the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport Inquiry on emotion, news and reality media.