Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 17, 2019

Duration

1h 0m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Rosalind Picard

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Rosalind Picard, Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24 explores rosalind Picard on Emotional AI, Privacy Risks, Wearables, and Meaning Rosalind Picard explains affective computing as technology that senses, interprets, and responds to human emotion, and potentially even incorporates mechanisms analogous to emotion inside machines. She emphasizes both the technical difficulty and the ethical stakes, especially around surveillance, manipulation, and misuse by powerful actors and governments. A major focus is on wearable sensing and smartphones for predicting stress, mood, and health, and how these tools can help vulnerable populations (e.g., people with epilepsy, depression, or limited resources). She closes by reflecting on the limits of science, her Christian faith, and the importance of building AI that enhances human freedom, dignity, and well‑being rather than just profit or control.

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