Summary: Affective computing – a family of A-I technologies that aim to be able to use biometrics to detect human emotions, or someone’s state of mind – is a subject of active research in academia and the commercial sector. The Department of Homeland Security has also dabbled with the technology to see if it’s able to detect lies among people seeking entry to the country. But our next guest says now’s the time to put some boundaries around potential government uses of affective computing. In a recent paper, Alex Engler, the Brookings Institution’s Rubenstein Fellow for Governance Studies argued the president should ban it altogether for federal law enforcement purposes. And Alex joined the Federal Drive to talk about that argument. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
