The new EU AI Act bans ‘unacceptably risky’ AI applications, including emotion-aware systems which educational researchers believe can significantly improve learning in the classroom. Is the EU right to outlaw emotional AI for learning along with such nefarious uses as social scoring and behavioural manipulation? And with the diffusion of emotional AI in mainstream consumer products including virtual reality headsets, might the ban be a backward step for European learners?
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Week notes: 19 June 2023
This week I am thinking about the innovation that isn’t. The innovation that doesn’t happen. I don’t mean innovation that fails. I mean innovation that simply doesn’t occur. The innovation that isn’t. Might machine and social learning reverse the stagnation of ideas?
Matthew Moran 