Emotional Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy

情感人工智能（EAI）是一个价值数十亿美元的快速发展产业，它结合了人工智能和大数据技术，旨在通过面部表情、声音、眼球运动、皮肤电导、体温等生物感官来检测情绪。尽管情绪是否可以客观地理解或解释仍然存在争议，但EAI已经在许多领域用于不同的目的。与EAI相关的监控给情感隐私带来了其他技术所没有的独特风险，因为我们不能“关闭”我们的脸来隐藏我们的情绪状态，而情绪状态是我们内心生活的重要组成部分。此外，对我们情绪的监控不仅威胁到我们的“内心生活”，而且，在某种程度上，EAI可能“比被试更了解他们自己”，监控通常涉及外部身份分配，可能很快就会导致EAI有效地决定我们的情绪。在我的论文中，我将探讨将人类情感作为潜在私人主题的必要性，并解决情感隐私对EAI监管的影响。我将评估各种关于隐私的法律理论，以回答为什么情感隐私很重要的问题，哪些价值观，如尊严、自主、自我，可以合理地支撑情感隐私，我将分析当前的监管制度在保护情感隐私和数据权利方面的有效性。

Emotional Artificial Intelligence (EAI) is a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry that combines AI and big data technology and aims to detect emotions through biometric senses such as facial expressions, voices, eye movements, skin conductance, body temperature. Although it remains controversial whether emotions can be objectively understood or interpreted, EAI is already used in many sectors and for different purposes. The surveillance connected with EAI creates distinctive risks for emotional privacy that other technologies do not, since we cannot 'turn off' our faces to hide our emotional states, an essential part of our inner lives. Furthermore, not only does the monitoring of our emotions threaten our 'inner lives', but, to the extent that EAI might "know subjects better than subjects know themselves," surveillance, which often involves an external assigning of identity, might soon result in EAI effectively determining our emotions. In my thesis, I will explore the necessity of embracing human emotions as potentially private subject matter and address the implications of emotional privacy for the regulation of EAI. I will evaluate various legal theories of privacy to answer the questions of why emotional privacy is important, which values, such as dignity, autonomy, self-hood, can plausibly underpin emotional privacy, and I will Analyse how effective the current regulatory regime is in protecting the rights to emotional privacy and data.