Rana el Kaliouby

Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

I personally believe in bringing your whole self to work and being open and transparent, even vulnerable. I believe that builds trust, loyalty, and a sense of belonging and passion.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

When a woman on your team or in your network comes up with an idea, make sure she gets credit for it.

Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a meeting, it's running over, and I am starting to panic because if I don't leave the office right this second, I will be - yet again - late picking my kids up from school.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.

Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.

By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.

I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.

We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

You want to know if people are resonating with your ad before it goes live and before you spend millions and millions of dollars. With our software, you can get a moment-by-moment readout of a viewer's emotional journey.

There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.

With every technology, there will be misuses of it.

We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything - we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.

I always want to listen with an open mind.

Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.

You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.