The Illusion of Engineering AI EQ: What We Lose When Empathy Becomes a Metric

When GPT-5.5 can write papers that meet academic standards, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro can generate bug-free code, should we pause to ask: Do these AIs truly understand human emotions? The Chinese Academy of Sciences recently turned "EQ" into an engineering system that is measurable and trainable. On the surface, it fills AI's most awkward gap, but a closer look at its methodology reveals a deeper dilemma—we are using engineering thinking to dissolve the essence of emotion.