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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform.We live in a world where artificial intelligence and intensive use of personal data has become normalized. Companies across the world are developing and launching technologies to infer and interact with emotions, mental states, and human conditions. However, the methods and means of mediating information about people and their emotional states are incomplete and problematic. Automating Empathy offers a critical exploration of technologies that sense intimate dimensions of human life and the modern ethical questions raised by attempts to perform and simulate empathy. It traces the ascendance of empathic technologies from their origins in physiognomy and pathognomy to the modern day and explores technologies in nations with non-Western ethical histories and app
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Automating Empathy SECTION I: THEORY AND ETHICS Chapter 2: Hyperreal Emotion Chapter 3: Assessing the Physiognomic Critique Chapter 4: Hybrid Ethics Chapter 5: The Context Imperative: Extractivism, Japan, and Holism SECTION II: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Chapter 6: Positive Education Chapter 7: Automating Vulnerability: Sensing Interiors Chapter 8: Hybrid Work: Automated for the People? Chapter 9: Waveforms of Human Intention: Towards Everyday Neurophenomenology Chapter 10: Selling Emotions: Moral Limits of Intimate Data Markets Chapter 11: Uncertainty for Good: Inverting Automated Empathy References
