Hi Andrew, I am glad that you raised this. I agree that animal welfare matters and AI will likely decide most of what happens in the future. I also agree that this is overlooked, both by AI people and animal welfare people. One very important aspect is how AI will tranform the factory farming industry, which might change the effectiveness of a lot of interventions farmed animal advocates are using.
I have been researching the ethics of AI concerning nonhuman animals over the last year, supervised by Peter Singer. Along with two other authors, we wrote a paper on speciesist biases in AI. But our scope is not just about algorithmic biases, but basically anything that we identify as affecting a large number of nonhuman animals (AI to decipher animal language is one topic of many, and I am glad to report that there are actually at least two more project on this going on). AI will affect the lives of farmed animals and wild animals, you can take a peek into our research in this talk, or there will be a paper coming out in 1-2 months.
Hi Andrew, I am glad that you raised this. I agree that animal welfare matters and AI will likely decide most of what happens in the future. I also agree that this is overlooked, both by AI people and animal welfare people. One very important aspect is how AI will tranform the factory farming industry, which might change the effectiveness of a lot of interventions farmed animal advocates are using.
I have been researching the ethics of AI concerning nonhuman animals over the last year, supervised by Peter Singer. Along with two other authors, we wrote a paper on speciesist biases in AI. But our scope is not just about algorithmic biases, but basically anything that we identify as affecting a large number of nonhuman animals (AI to decipher animal language is one topic of many, and I am glad to report that there are actually at least two more project on this going on). AI will affect the lives of farmed animals and wild animals, you can take a peek into our research in this talk, or there will be a paper coming out in 1-2 months.
Coincidentally (or is it?), just before you posted this, there is a post called megaprojects for animals, and my comment which included AI for animals.
Fai, your link to the paper didn’t work for me, is this the correct link?
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2202/2202.10848.pdf
Ah yes! I think copy and paste probably didn’t work at that time, or my brain! I fixed it.