Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life

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Andrew McStay (Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab, Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab, Bangor University)

Automating Empathy

Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life

Andrew McStay (Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab, Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab, Bangor University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
14 February 2024

Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Technology: general issues; Natural language & machine translation

This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform.

We live in a world where artificial intelligence and intensive use of personal data has become normalized. Companies across the world are developing and launching technologies to infer and interact with emotions, mental states, and human conditions. However, the methods and means of mediating information about people and their emotional states are incomplete and problematic. Automating Empathy offers a critical exploration of technologies that sense intimate dimensions of human life and the modern ethical questions raised by attempts to perform and simulate empathy. It traces the ascendance of empathic technologies from their origins in physiognomy and pathognomy to the modern day and explores technologies in nations with non-Western ethical histories and approaches to emotion, such as Japan. The book examines applications of empathic technologies across sectors such as education, policing, and transportation, and considers key questions of everyday use such as the integration of human-state sensing in mixed reality, the use of neurotechnologies, and the moral limits of using data gleaned through automated empathy. Ultimately, Automating Empathy outlines the key principles necessary to usher in a future where automated empathy can serve and do good.

Drawing insights across ethics, philosophy, and policy, Automating Empathy argues for a pluralistic reconceptualization of empathic technologies to better reflect the intimate dimensions of human life.

By: Andrew McStay (Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab Bangor University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780197615553
ISBN 10: 0197615554
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Automating Empathy SECTION I: THEORY AND ETHICS Chapter 2: Hyperreal Emotion Chapter 3: Assessing the Physiognomic Critique Chapter 4: Hybrid Ethics Chapter 5: The Context Imperative: Extractivism, Japan, and Holism SECTION II: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Chapter 6: Positive Education Chapter 7: Automating Vulnerability: Sensing Interiors Chapter 8: Hybrid Work: Automated for the People? Chapter 9: Waveforms of Human Intention: Towards Everyday Neurophenomenology Chapter 10: Selling Emotions: Moral Limits of Intimate Data Markets Chapter 11: Uncertainty for Good: Inverting Automated Empathy References

Andrew McStay is Professor of Technology and Society and Director of The Emotional AI Lab at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of books, articles, and chapters assessing emergent technologies and their social implications. His work has covered cross-cultural social analysis of emotional AI, extended reality, and personal data stores. Active in the technology standards development community, he also serves as an advisor to policy organisations, NGOs, and as a critical friend to several start-ups.

Reviews for Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life

In this innovative and powerful text, McStay (Bangor Univ., UK) provides both a thorough description and an epistemic and ethical assessment of contemporary technologies designed to emulate, interpret, and express empathy...this text stands out as a pioneering and enlightening piece, meriting reexamination for its profound insights into the intersection of technology, ethics, and human emotion. Essential. All readership levels. * Choice *