Key Facts:
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The AI system uses ten categories of social emotions to identify violations of social norms.
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The system has been tested on two large datasets of short texts, validating its models.
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This preliminary work, funded by DARPA, is seen as a significant step in improving cross-cultural language understanding and situational awareness.
Psycho-Pass raises a lot of interesting questions and dilemmas because the technology depicted actually works in that setting (aside from a few outlying cases that help drive interesting plots). If there was a scanner of some sort that actually genuinely could detect violent intention before it was acted on then I think it would be reasonable and moral to use it in at least some manner.