> AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school
I wonder how broadly this will be construed. For example if an agent uses CoT and they needs emotional state as part of that, can it be used in a work or school setting at all?
So, this targets the use case of a third party using AI to detect the emotional state of a person.
Do I want cameras all over society tracking emotions? Probably not. But there’s a baby somewhere in that bath water.
Then I started thinking how this could be used in restaurants to see if waiters smile to the people they are serving Or in customer service (you can actually hear it when people smile on the phone)
Then I realised that this kind of tech would definitely lead to abuse
(btw that's not the reason I didn't build it, it was just not that easy to build)
Not sure if that’s solved
Yes. This is how you know that all the people screaming about the EU overregulating and how the EU will miss all that AI innovation haven't even bothered to Google or ask their preferred LLM about the legislation. It's mostly just common sense to avoid EU citizens having their rights or lives decided by blackbox algorithms nobody can explain, be it in a Post Office (UK) scandal style, or US healthcare style.
It might well be a useful tool to point at yourself.
It's an entirely inappropriate one to point at someone else. If you can't imagine having someone estimate your emotional state (usually incorrectly), and use that as a basis to disregard your opinion, you've lived a very different life to mine. Don't let them hide behind "the AI agreed with my assessment".
The regulation explicitly provides an exception for medical reasons:
Article 5:
1. The following AI practices shall be prohibited:
[...]
(f) the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions, except where the use of the AI system is intended to be put in place or into the market for medical or safety reasons;If I must intact with an AI for this, I'd prefer that it infer my emotions correctly.