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Understanding and Regulating Advanced Emotional Capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems

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English captions The narration uses a synthetic clone of my voice.

AI can already recognize emotions better than the average person, but this ability is hardly being measured. In this film about our paper, we propose testing it along four dimensions, and the fourth, critical and central, asks what AI does with what it reads.

The film in Hebrew

About the paper

The paper has been accepted for publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, a Nature Portfolio journal.

The paper

Understanding and Regulating Advanced Emotional Capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems

Zohar Elyoseph*, Elad Refoua*, Karen Yirmiya, Tamar Tavory, Gunther Meinlschmidt, Dorit Hadar-Shoval and Peter Fonagy. The asterisk marks the first two authors, who contributed equally.

Credits

  • Written and directed by Elad Refoua, with Claude (Anthropic)
  • Narration: a synthetic clone of Elad's voice, with his consent
  • The voice of the man who says “I'm fine”: generated with AI
  • Paintings: generated with AI, in ChatGPT
  • Animation, graphics and editing: built in code with Claude
  • Short video clips: generated with Veo, in Google Flow
  • Music: “Roses” by Andrew Ev, from Mixkit, under the Mixkit Stock Music Free License
  • All the characters in the film are fictional, and the photos of the paper's authors are real