Scientists create online game to show risks of AI emotion recognition

Dr Alexa Hagerty plays a game on the Emojify website, which demonstrates AI emotion recognition technology (Cambridge University/PA)

Scientists are inviting people to pull faces at their webcam and smartphone to see in action a controversial technology called artificial intelligence emotion recognition.

Researchers from Cambridge University and UCL have built a website called Emojify to help people to understand how computers can be used to scan facial expressions to detect emotion.