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title: '**Affective computing**'
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  **Affective computing** — AI technology designed to detect and interpret human
  emotions, as exemplified by the emotion-decoding AI model discussed with Alan
  Cowen[^2c6179aa-ba58-5cc8-93bb-8237043cde99].
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# \*\*Affective computing\*\*

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## Definition

**Affective computing** — AI technology designed to detect and interpret human emotions, as exemplified by the emotion-decoding AI model discussed with Alan Cowen[^2c6179aa-ba58-5cc8-93bb-8237043cde99].

On this channel, **affective computing** shows up in the conversation with Alan Cowen about an **AI model that decodes human emotions** — software built to read and interpret emotional signals from people[^2c6179aa-ba58-5cc8-93bb-8237043cde99]. The discussion sits inside the channel's broader exploration of **AI and human meaning**: what happens to human feeling, intellect, and identity when machines can model something as intimate as emotion.The full episode is a conversation with Alan Cowen (April 2024), introduced by the channel as *“He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions.”* It pairs naturally with the channel's other material on AI and human meaning, which examines how AI feels like a threat to the self and how thinkers propose to respond.\**Affective computing** here means AI that detects and decodes human emotions.\\It is explored through the Alan Cowen conversation on an emotion-decoding AI model.\\The term connects to the channel's larger question of what AI does to human meaning and identity.\