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Front. Artif. Intell.
Sec. AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change
Volume 7 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2024.1398395
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Emotions and Artificial Intelligence

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Equipping AI-Decision-Support-Systems with emotional capabilities? Ethical perspectives Provisionally Accepted

Max Tretter1*
  • 1Philosophische Fakultät und Theologische Fakultät. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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It is important to accompany the research on Emotional Artificial Intelligence with ethical oversight. Previous publications on the ethics of Emotional Artificial Intelligence emphasize the importance of subjecting every (possible) type of Emotional Artificial Intelligence to separate ethical considerations. That's why, in this contribution I will focus on a particular subset of AI systems: AIdriven Decision-Support Systems (AI-DSS), and ask whether it would be advisable from an ethical perspective to equip these AI systems with emotional capacities. I will show, on one hand, equipping AI-DSS with emotional capabilities offers great opportunities, as they open the possibility to prevent emotionally biased decisions -but that it also amplifies the ethical challenges already posed by emotionally-incapable AI-DSS. Yet, if their introduction is accompanied by a broad social discourse and prepared by suitable measures to address these challenges, I argue, nothing should fundamentally stand in the way of equipping AI-DSS with emotional capabilities.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, agency, responsibility, Trust, emotion detection

Received: 09 Mar 2024; Accepted: 13 May 2024.

Copyright: © 2024 Tretter. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Mx. Max Tretter, Philosophische Fakultät und Theologische Fakultät. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany