Affective Sovereignty in the Age of Emotional AI: Reclaiming the Right to Feel

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<p>As emotional AI systems gain interpretive authority over human affect, a critical ethicalquestion emerges: who retains the right to define what we feel? This paper introducesAffective Sovereignty as an ethical imperative in the age of emotional AI. We argue thatsystems like Replika and Affectiva, which read and label human emotions, risk uniquenessviolations—flattening personal, context-rich feelings into algor...

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57ec4a24-901f-5e64-93c1-984a5d41397a

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10.31234/osf.io/ms7gv_v1