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Andrew McStay

Social impact, automated empathy, emotion, AI, governance and ethics

Talks (recent)

  • McStay, A. (2024) When is Deception OK? Ethical Considerations of Emulated Empathy in AI (IEEE P7014.1). ISTAS, IEEE.

  • McStay, A. (2024) Automating Empathy in Human-AI Partnerships: Issues, Ethics and Governance, IEEE Global lecture.

  • McStay, A. (2024) BBC AI/Machine Learning community on AI companions and empathy. 

  • McStay, A. (2024) Automating Empathy, Establishing Standards and Good Governance, FENS-Chen Neuroscience Summer School, University of Lausanne.

  • McStay, A. (2024) Automating Empathy: Developing Cross-Cultural Soft Law Standards for Artificial Partners based on Foundational AI, China University of Politics and Law, Beijing.

  • McStay, A. (2023) Creating Trustworthy Human Machine Interactions in Cars: The Case of Regulating Emotional Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Law and Technology Conference – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei.

  • McStay, A. (2023) Automating Empathy and the Public Good: The Unique Case of Health. Artificial Intelligence, health care, and ethics conference. Newcastle University.

  • ​McStay, A. (2023) Replika in The Metaverse. MMU/DCMS/DSIT.

  • McStay, A. (2023) Edinburgh Futures Institute. Technomoral Conversation on Technologically Mediated Intimacy. 

  • McStay, A. (2022) AI Ethics and Emotion Recognition. Keynote. Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (DIDS 2022 conference).

  • McStay, A. (2022) Intelligent Machines, Emotions and Our Planet. Keynote. Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

  • McStay, A. (2021) Emotional Artificial Intelligence and Regulation of Content Recommendation Systems, Digital Society Lab. Belgrade.

  • McStay, A. (2021) Gauging civic feeling of emotion recognition: ethics, policy, and citizen opinion, UCLIC, University College London.

  • McStay, A. (2021) Automating Empathy: Trajectory, Implications and Citizen Views, University of Edinburgh.

  • McStay, A. (2021) Automating Empathy: Social Impact, Mediated Emotion and Subjectivity, IEEE SSIT Special lecture.

  • McStay, A. (2021) Mediated Empathy and Creativity, Falmouth University.

  • McStay, A. (2020) Emotional AI: A Q&A, IULM University of Milan, Italy.

  • McStay, A. (2020) Emotional AI and Ethics, Co-speaker ben Bland (IEEE/Sensum), chair Pam Pavliscak, School of information, Pratt Institute, New York.

  • McStay, A. (2020) Feeling-into Everyday Life: Empathic Technologies and Ontology, Russian Academy of Sciences and URAL University, Moscow

  • Empathic Technologies: Landscape, Ethics, Citizens (2020) Emotion AI Conference, New York

  • Bakir, V. and McStay, A. (2020) Empathic Technologies: Mediated Emotion During COVID-19 (and after), A Global Digital Publics Network (GDPN) event in collaboration with the Emotional AI Lab, the Network for Media & Persuasive Communication, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization and the Fame and Persona Research Consortium.

  • Bakir, V. and McStay, A. (2020) Regulating Disinformation in Context of Modulated Emotion, Sussex Centre for Information Governance Research.

  • A Principled Approach to the Emotion Economy (2020) SxSW, Austin, USA[1].

  • Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Rights, Children and Domestication (2020) CPDP, Brussels, Belgium.

  • The Rise of Empathic Technologies (2019) EURA Center of Excellence for Regulation of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy.

  • Ethics fatigue? Emotional AI, Citizen Perspectives & Implications for Martech (2019) International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), University of Cambridge, UK.

  • Offline Intimacy (2019) Challenges of the (Post)Digital Age, Belgrade.

  • The Ethics of Automation in the Workplace (2019) Haymarket Media Group/Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.

  • Spilling into the city: AI and advertising (2019) Goldsmiths, Uni. of London.

  • Emotiveillance: Smart Advertising, Retail and the Privacy Problem (2019) Liverpool Screen School, LMJU, UK.

  • Intimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2018) Grounded Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Concept for festival based on McStay’s Emotional AI book)

  • Emotional AI: Nature, Form, Ethics, Governance (2018) Pratt Institute, New York.

  • AI and Creative Practice (2018) Bond Uni., Queensland, Australia.

  • Intimacy and the Civic Body: Emotional AI and the City (2018) Information Law and Policy Centre, London.

  • All Smiles? Emotional AI, Ethics, Industry Views & Citizen Perspectives (2018) Re-Work summit on Machine Learning, AI & Digital Assistants, San Francisco, USA.

  • Governing Affective Computing: The Problem of Being Private in Public (2018) Surveillance & Society, Denmark.

  • Understanding the Significance of Emotional AI and Empathic Media (2018) CRISP, Uni. of Stirling.

  • Emotional AI: Ethics, Citizens and Ubiquitous Feeling-Into (2017) Re-Work global summit on AI & Digital Assistants, London, UK.

  • Fake News & Digital Advertising (2017) House of Commons, UK Parliament, London.

  • Some Context to Branded Content & Advertising (2017) Theorising Branded Content, Univ. of East London.

  • Empathic Media: The Case of Advertising (2017) CPDP, Brussels.

  • Some Context to Branded Content and Advertising (2017) Theorising Branded Content, Uni. of East London.

  • Researching Empathic Media: Corporate Access, Methods and Ethics (2016) Uni. of Sheffield.

  • Empathic Media: In the Workplace (2016) Society for Computers and Law, 11KBW.

  • Empathic Media: The Case of Gaming (2016) Stanford Uni.

  • Emotiveillance (2016) Uni. of Toronto.

  • Intimacy and Consent (2016) Digital Catapult, London UK.

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