Forbes January 24, 2026
AI agents can now see your face, hear your tone and respond in real time. Teaching machines the art of being human means bridging the gap between surface mimicry and genuine empathy.
It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human.
“You can’t actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to understand human emotion,” said Hassaan Raza, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Tavus, an AI research lab and developer platform. Raza shared insights via an interview.
Much of the human emotion Raza speaks of is centered in the human face, where dozens of muscles interact in myriad ways to create...
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