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The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

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The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI At the Sentient Futures Summit, animal welfare advocates pushed to make AI care about animals—and asked if AI might be sentient too. In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Persian rugs...
The Sentient Futures Summit represents a fascinating convergence of animal welfare advocacy, effective altruism, and AI ethics, but it also exposes deeper tensions in how we prioritize moral concerns. The strongest version of this narrative highlights a proactive effort to shape AI development in ways that align with ethical values, ensuring that future systems consider nonhuman suffering. This is a commendable goal, especially given the historical neglect of animal welfare in mainstream philant...