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Emotion AI in education
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Nathalie DiBerardino (Western University) discusses the growing take-up of emotion AI in schools – tech that claims to detect student attention, concentration, and even interest levels.
What are the harms of relying on such tech in classrooms, and how might educators and students push back?
Accompanying reference >>> DiBerardino, N. & Stark, L. (2023). (Anti)-Intentional Harms: The Conceptual Pitfalls of Emotion AI in Education. in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 1386-1395).