New paper: AI Act, cars, emotion, fatigue, attention, ethics

Fair to say that many applications of systems that pertain to profile and engage with affect and emotion will not come to pass. Others are different, receiving not only financial investment but policy investment. Use of cameras and sensors in private transport to gauge fatigue, attention and emotion is perhaps the prime example of this.

Against the backdrop of the European Union’s proposed AI Act, Andrew McStay and Lachlan Urquhart consider: (1) European road safety policy that seeks to vastly reduce road deaths using computational surveillance; (2) interest in the role of safety solutions based on in-cabin sensing of emotion and affective states of drivers and passengers and (3) wider autonomous driving trends that are changing the nature of interactions between vehicle and driver.

Paper

McStay, A. and Urquhart, L. (2022) In cars (are we really safest of all?): interior sensing and emotional opacity, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology.