Executive summary: The AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference, Retreat, and Co-working event in London brought together around 130 people to learn, connect, and make progress on developing AI technologies that protect and benefit nonhuman animals and potentially sentient AI.
Key points:
The event included a 1-day hybrid conference with talks on AI for animals, digital minds, and interspecies communication.
A 2-day in-person unconference retreat followed, allowing attendees to discuss topics of interest in an unstructured format and share lightning talks.
A 5-day co-working period provided networking opportunities for attendees who stayed in London.
Follow-up opportunities included subscribing to the AI for Animals Newsletter, joining the AI Coalition on Hive, a potential job opening, and fundraising for future work.
Tangible outcomes encompassed continued momentum from the previous year’s conference, potential project funding, increased interest in the field, epistemic updates, and connections with other groups working in the space.
Participant feedback highlighted the engaging unconference format, great diversity of talks, and some logistical challenges to address for future events.
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Executive summary: The AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference, Retreat, and Co-working event in London brought together around 130 people to learn, connect, and make progress on developing AI technologies that protect and benefit nonhuman animals and potentially sentient AI.
Key points:
The event included a 1-day hybrid conference with talks on AI for animals, digital minds, and interspecies communication.
A 2-day in-person unconference retreat followed, allowing attendees to discuss topics of interest in an unstructured format and share lightning talks.
A 5-day co-working period provided networking opportunities for attendees who stayed in London.
Follow-up opportunities included subscribing to the AI for Animals Newsletter, joining the AI Coalition on Hive, a potential job opening, and fundraising for future work.
Tangible outcomes encompassed continued momentum from the previous year’s conference, potential project funding, increased interest in the field, epistemic updates, and connections with other groups working in the space.
Participant feedback highlighted the engaging unconference format, great diversity of talks, and some logistical challenges to address for future events.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.