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New study finds AI-generated empathy has its limits

Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions — and even display empathy. However, new research finds they do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user’s experience.

From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

June 23, 2025

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Novel analytics framework measures empathy of people captured in video recordings

Empathy, the ability to understand what others are feeling and emotionally connect with their experiences, can be highly advantageous for humans, as it allows them to strengthen relationships and thrive in some professional settings. The development of tools for reliably measuring people's empathy has thus been a key objective of…

June 8, 2025

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How to give AI-based robots empathy so they won’t want to kill us

A team of social scientists, neurologists and psychiatrists at the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute, working with colleagues from the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, the University of Central Florida and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have published a Viewpoint piece in the journal…

July 20, 2023

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