Driver safety monitoring in cars? Isn't that a thing of the past with self-driving cars on the horizon? 🤔 Not so fast! In this article I explore why driver state monitoring is more critical than ever in the transition to autonomous vehicles, and will continue be demanded by consumers after it. We're talking decades of shared control, and understanding the driver's mental state is key to safe handovers and interventions. Read more about the future of automotive safety and how companies like BLUESKEYE AI are leading the charge.

Our team at BLUESKEYE AI has had a very, very successful 2024. Looking back, 2024 will stand out as pivotal for its success in years to come. We started the year at our stand at CES making promises of what would be possible with our technology, and boy did we deliver. We will now go into 2025 with two feature-full, fully validated and industry tested products. What’s more, we’ve now completed our validation efforts to demonstrate that our core technology is the very best out there.

Warning - this is a bit of a longer article in which I try to bring some sense to what robots are currently being built as well as how they will be used alongside humans. My thinking on this is work in progress, and I hope it may help you form your view on humanoid robots too.

A Swiss church has taken AI to a new level by creating an AI avatar of Jesus! This interactive avatar, placed in a confessional booth, has already been used by over 1,000 people, two thirds of whom reported that their interaction with this JAIsus resulted in ‘a spiritual experience’.

This groundbreaking experiment sparks fascinating questions about humanity, the future of AI and its impact on society.

Read the full blog post to dive deeper into the implications of this technological advancement and the philosophical discussions it inspires.

Yesterday the Independent Review of Equity in Medical Devices published a report on bias in medical devices. Set up in 2022 by the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, the review sought to establish the extent and impact of ethnic and other unfair biases in the performance of medical devices commonly used in the NHS.

Chief Scientific Officer, Prof Michel Valstar's latest blog post charts the development of an ethical approach to affective computing resulting in the publication of The IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing’s Special Issue on Ethics in Affective Computing.

Many people are rightly excited about the opportunity AI brings to preventing, detecting, and treating poor mental health. To do so, an ethical approach to AI is required, which includes making AI that is explainable and accurate regardless of who you are. And to achieve the greatest impact, it should be adaptable to be used for as many medical conditions as possible.

BLUESKEYE AI uses a unique approach to achieve explainable, robust, and adaptable analysis of medically relevant face and voice behaviour.

Have you ever asked yourself, why do humans spend such an enormous amount of time and energy on faces? Taking pictures, using make-up, and writing elaborate descriptions in books and stories?

Two weeks ago I attended CES 2024, a massive trade fair where over 130,000 people attended to see the latest in consumer electronics. BLUESKEYE AI had a stand there, in the Digital Health Zone, with the aim to find new (business) customers. For four days me and the others in the team would explain what we do. Invariably, I’d start with ‘BLUESKEYE specialises at recognising medically relevant face and voice behaviour, to help pharmaceutical companies and the automotive industry detect conditions such as depression, fatigue, pain, and many others'.

There are always a fair few well-connected clinicians there, often acting as a technology scout for companies in the health sectors, and as you can imagine they got really excited about the possibilities for healthcare! We’d have a good conversation about how BLUESKEYE AI could help them, and I came away really inspired about how we can support clinical practice with our Ethical Emotion AI. To give everyone working in healthcare the same benefit of that conversation without having to fly to CES, I will try to set out some of the ways in which BLUESKEYE AI can support clinical practice in this article.