What Happens When AI Can Read Your Emotions? | Rana Gujral

Artificial intelligence isn't just getting better at answering questions. It's getting better at understanding the people asking them. As AI learns to recognize our emotions, behaviors, and vulnerabilities, the line between helping us and influencing us gets increasingly difficult to see. 

Today we're talking about the future of artificial intelligence with Rana Gujral. Rana is the author of The AI Instinct: The Future of AI and Human Decision-Making and former CEO of Behavioral Signals, where he worked on AI technologies that analyze human communication to understand intent, emotion, trust, and cognition.  We discuss whether today's AI systems actually think, what AI may reveal about human intelligence and consciousness, and how machines can already detect emotional and behavioral signals in our voices. We also explore the risks of AI learning our triggers, what happens when we outsource more of our judgment to machines, deepfakes and emotional manipulation, the coming collision between AI and brain-computer interfaces, and how we can preserve human agency as these systems become increasingly embedded in how we think and make decisions.