Synthetic Affects and Human Realities: Toward an Integrated Framework of Emotion, Risk, and Collective Intelligence in AI-Human Interaction
Abstract Artificial Intelligence has entered its affective phase. Beyond cognition and computation, contemporary AI systems now claim the ability to recognize, generate, and simulate emotions across modalities. This article integrates six recent research trajectories — psychological risk taxonomies, multimodal emotion recognition and generation, speculative architectures for synthetic emotions, longitudinal analyses of chatbot psychosocial effects, generative …