Empathy and Artificial Intelligence

Introduction AI and empathy at a crossroads: a primer for an interdisciplinary field C. Daryl Cameron and Anat Perry; Part I. Understanding Empathy: 1. A very human history of artificial empathy Shai Satran; 2. Try to see things from my point of view: Empathy, AI, and the right to be an exception Will Kidder, Jason D. Cruz and Kush Varshney; 3. Does it take two to empathize? Sean Laurent and Iris Sooyun Chung; 4. Models match or surpass objective human performance on various tasks Ariel Goldstein and Gabriel Stanovsky; 5. Synthetic support: Empathy and human-machine communication Austin Beattie and Andrew High; 6. Is empathic AI possible? Mohammad Atari, F¿rat ¿eker and Aliah Zewail; Part II. Perceiving AI Empathy: 7. Get real Paul Bloom; 8. Humans and AIs may fulfill different empathic needs Anat Perry and Jamil Zaki; 9. Empathic AI will undermine human kindness Madhulika Shastry, Sharlene Fernandes and Kurt Gray; 10. What LLMpathy can tell us about received empathy Eliana Hadjiandreou, Tatiana Lau and Desmond Ong; 11. Machines that care: on receiving and providing AI-driven empathy Elena H. Lee, Yidan Yin and Cheryl Wakslak; 12. What's so special about human empathy? Examining AI empathy and its trade-offs Joshua D. Wenger, C. Daryl Cameron, Martina Orlandi and Michael Inzlicht; Part III. Beyond Text - Embodiment and Robots: 13. Examining the capacity of human beings to experience empathy towards AI Lasana Harris; 14. Trust and social affiliation may influence evacuee decisions during robot-guided evacuation Alan R. Wagner and Colin Holbrook; 15. Does embodiment influence empathy toward artificial agents? Ilkay Ari and Agnieszka Wykowska; 16. Your robot will feel you now: empathy in robots and embodied agents Angelica Lim and Özge Nilay Yalçin; 17. Children's judgments of and interactions with empathetic AI Teresa Flanagan and Tamar Kushnir; 18. Anticipating children's beliefs about artificial empathy Madeline G. Reinecke; 19. From social media to empathic artificial intelligence: applying past lessons to future technologies Micaela Rodriguez, Matt Motyl and Juliana Schroeder; Part IV. Moral Implications: 20. Contemporary AI and the value of empathy Carlos Montemayor; 21. Can empathy guide ethical AI? Opportunities, challenges, and the path forward Özge Nilay Yalçin; 22. Does AI need empathy in medicine? Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; 23. AI in healthcare: comparing ethical standards for humans and AI Michael Laakasuo, Kathryn Francis, Marianna Drosinou and Ivar Hannaiken; 24. AI, empathy, and moral status Joshua August Skorburg and Dylan White; 25. AI should develop human empathy, not replace it Ethan Landes and Jim A. C. Everett; 26. Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence Brett Karlan; 27. Stories of empathy: empathy, interactions with AI, and identity building Leda Berio.