Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

Egypt, Entrepreneur
1978

Rana El-Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. Her field is expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotions expressed by the face. El-Kaliouby's research moved beyond the field's dependence on exaggerated or caricatured expressions modeled by laboratory actors, to focus on the subtle glances found in real situations.

Also known as Scientist

On the path to ubiquity of AI, there will be many ethics-related decisions that we, as AI leaders, need to make. We have a responsibility to drive those decisions, not only because it is the right thing to do for society but because it is the smart business decision.

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I do worry that organizations and even governments who own AI and data will have a competitive advantage and power, and those who don't will be left behind.

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We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything - we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.

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- Heart
- Blood
- Face
Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

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- Decisions
- Emotions
With every technology, there will be misuses of it.

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- Technology
Emotions are core to everything we do.

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- Emotions
- Core
With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

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In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.

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People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

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- People
- Kind
- Should
We're not interested in applications where you're spying on people.

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- Interested
- Applications