Several prominent criticisms have recently challenged the possibility of algorithmically determining or recognising human affect. This paper ethically evaluates one underexplored avenue for overcoming such deficiencies in categorical affect recognition technologies (ARTs). Specifically, the emerging literature on “situated affectivity” offers valuable guidance on three fronts. First, it conceptually substantiates existing criticism by stressing the contextual dimensions of human affect. Second, in highlighting the breadth of information required for more accurate ARTs, it suggest that they may necessitate penetrating forms of surveillance the ethical literature has already provided good reason to resist. Third, it corroborates postphenomenological insights concerning the socially co-constituting character of technology; and thereby grounds the need for a “situated ethics” sensitive to the ways that ARTs might reconstruct human affectivity (and reinforce existing power hierarchies). The deep worry is that this concern is likely to persist even if concerns over accuracy and surveillance are mitigated. A detailed consideration of this novel ethical concern suggests that the ethically acceptable use of ARTs may only be possible in highly contained settings. Yet doubts over such containment places advocates of ARTs in a “double bind” they need to address.

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(E)情感绑定：情境情感和情感识别的前景

最近，一些著名的批评对通过算法确定或识别人类影响的可能性提出了挑战。本文从伦理角度评估了一种尚未充分探索的克服分类情感识别技术（ART）缺陷的途径。具体来说，关于“情境情感”的新兴文献在三个方面提供了宝贵的指导。首先，它通过强调人类情感的情境维度，从概念上证实了现有的批评。其次，在强调更准确的 ART 所需的信息广度时，它表明它们可能需要渗透性的监视形式，而伦理文献已经提供了充分的抵制理由。第三，它证实了关于技术的社会共构特征的后现象学见解；因此，需要一种“情境伦理”，该伦理对艺术可能重建人类情感（并加强现有权力等级制度）的方式敏感。令人深感担忧的是，即使对准确性和监视的担忧得到缓解，这种担忧也可能持续存在。对这一新的伦理问题的详细考虑表明，在伦理上可接受的 ART 的使用可能只有在高度封闭的环境中才有可能。然而，对此类遏制措施的怀疑使抗逆转录病毒疗法的倡导者陷入了他们需要解决的“双重困境”。