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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Forget About AI: The Future Is Artificial Emotional Intelligence
Can ‘cold’ technologies genuinely improve our mental well-being? This article provides an interesting take on this question, by introducing the concept of Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI). It makes some bold future predictions: “We’re not used to thinking that the next big thing will be tackling the scarcity of wisdom, but this is — we feel — what’s on the cards.”
The article focuses on six areas where Artificial Emotional Intelligence could make a real difference to our lives.
First: self-knowledge. As the article states: “At present, we are often deeply ignorant about where our talents lie, what our flaws are and what [our] true interests might be.” AEI should help us find out what job we should be doing, and even whom we should be in a relationship with.
Another area where we have much to gain is education, because: “we’re not good at knowing what particular individuals are capable of, what they really need to know, when it’s best to try to teach them — and what manner of instruction will suit their temperaments best.”
Then there is the news media: “In a future with AEI, we’ll know how to lead people to information that is genuinely fruitful for them and their nations, rather than merely click-baiting them with stories that shock, titillate and horrify, but don’t manage to change anything in the world.”
And if this prediction is anything to go by, everything from the way we form relationships to how we shop and how we produce art will be transformed by AEI.
