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There has been a lot of research on developing and evaluating empathetic AI systems. However, there are still many open questions and challenges: - We need a clear, agreed-upon definition of empathy to test against. - We should avoid debating whether AIs can "truly" feel emotions and instead focus on evaluating their observable empathetic behaviors. - Important distinctions exist between identifying vs generating empathy, and empathy in one-off responses vs dialogues. Systems should be evaluated accordingly. - Testing AI systems introduces risks like multiple choice bias, sampling bias in human ratings, and overfitting to prompts. - Some standard frameworks have been proposed for testing AI empathy, but more work is still needed to mitigate known risks and explore unknown challenges. - Areas for further research include assessing risks in existing tests, developing complementary test cases, and evaluating more systems systematically.

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