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Emotional AI will enhance more intuitive and personal human-machine interactions by analyzing facial expressions, speech patterns, physiological factors, and behavioural expressions, and find applications in healthcare, education, customer service, and other fields. Although this field is promising, it comes with serious ethical issues especially on privacy, transparency, accountability and fairness. The nature of human emotions is intricate, context-specific and culturally biassed, thus the perceptions of emotions are challenging and subject to biasness in the perception. Besides, emotional data is sensitive, thus, causing concerns over its abuse, surveillance, and infringement of individual rights. The problems of algorithms bias, the representativeness of data, and even fairness also make the implementation of the Emotional AI more problematic since biassed systems can serve to strengthen stereotypes and inequalities in society. 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