Thanks for that excellent summary, Max.
One area I haven’t seen addressed to date is the potential impact of AI on commensal rodents that are considered pests. I like to imagine that a device such as the Rae robot <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opencv/rae-0/description> might be trained to effectively track comings and goings of unwelcome critters, identifying entry points and issuing instructions for effective exclusion, helping avert use of cruel devices like glue traps.
Wish I had the skill to implement something like that. Would love to hear from anyone who does ;-)
Stephen Ronan
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“However, we are trying to obtain a copy of the necropsy report.”
I also wonder whether you were ever able to obtain that.
Here in Boston, our City Council held a hearing recently on Wisdom Good Works’ https://wisdomgoodworks.org/ Good Bites rodent birth control. It has undergone testing by WGW in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. In your piece, you allude to that product being under development; “made from the whole root extract of Tripterygiumwilfordii Hook F (TwHF), which contains triptolide”. Loretta Mayer who as you know had major responsibility for developing ContraPest and Good Bites wasn’t there at the hearing, but there was an impressively well-informed representative/spokesperson for the WGW nonprofit as part of an outstanding panel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igYsoibpgg
-S