'Every smile you fake' — an AI emotion-recognition system can assess how 'happy' China's workers are in the office

Source: Cheryl Teh
Affiliation: Insider

In this article, a Chinese emotion recognition system is described. The developers of this technology claim that their system can monitor facial features to track how people feel, and that the system is so robust it can detect when someone is faking a smile. The article discusses the intended applications for this technology as well as the ethical and human rights issues surrounding this technology.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence , Computer Science , Emotion Recognition , Facial Recognition , Physiognomy , Science Fiction , Tech Ethics