Designing Emotionally Intelligent Machines

This was a main stage talk at The Next Web in Amsterdam in May 2018 (5-7K audience size) about the future of artificial intelligence and emotion. Artificial intelligence seems poised to remake what it means to be human. We struggle with how human to make our machines, at the same time as we struggle with how to maintain our own humanity. Without emotion, we won’t even get close. The convergence of affective computing and AI will bring us toward an era of emotionally intelligent machines. And, even more important, may lead us to a more humane future for humans, too.