WATCH: Beyond Black Mirror: The Real Experiment of Giving AI Emotions : I/O Magazine 2025

Household robots and AI assistants illustrate how personality can make technology more approachable. But these assets come with their own set of ethical dilemmas. Come along on a discussion of whether adding human-like emotions to AI is helpful or hurtful, and why it might already be too late to ask the question.

Featuring: David Carlson Yoh Family Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boyuan Chen Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Jana Schaich Borg Associate Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute, and Pardis Emami-Naeini Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

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