Computers are getting good at tasks like determining people’s emotional states by observing their facial expressions and vocal patterns, but this is a long, long way from doing the things we just listed. We’re confident that the ability to work effectively with people’s emotional states and social drives will remain a deeply human skill for some time to come. This implies a novel way to combine minds and machines as we move deeper into the second machine age: let the computers take the lead on making decisions (or judgments, predictions, diagnoses, and so on), then let people take the lead if
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