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Professor Andrew McStay is the Director of the Emotional AI Lab at Bangor University where he also lectures on the social implications of emerging technologies. Professor McStay advises widely on policy in this area, especially biometrics. Professor McStay’s most recent book (with Vian Bakir) is Feeling-into the Civic Body: Disinformation, Optimisation, Solutions (Springer 2022). Forthcoming this year is Automating Empathy: When Technologies Claim to Feel-Into Everyday Life (OUP 2023).
Professor Andrew McStay, School of History, Law and Social Sciences, Bangor UniversityWales is unique, having law dedicated to protection of the wellbeing of future generations. My interest is in how current and future generations can have the best of emerging technologies, especially those involving artificial intelligence. This involves understanding citizen feeling about new technologies and applications, advising data protection authorities, and leading development of ethical technical standards to advance governance of artificial intelligence, especially as they apply to gauging and interacting with human emotion and psychology."
