Thanks to everyone who participated in AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025!
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We aim to build a multidisciplinary field focusing on how artificial intelligence can positively impact nonhumans
AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025 brought together leading minds in London and virtually to explore the intersection of AI, animals, and digital minds – and to work together to help the future go better for all sentient beings.
On Friday we had a conference with talks, panels, and workshops delivered by leaders in the field. At the weekend, it was a smaller unconference with the agenda set by participants!
SATELLITE EVENTS
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Code for Compassion London 2025
Join leading AI developers & animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection in this ground-breaking hackathon developed in collaboration between Electric Sheep & Open Paws, with support from AI for Animals.
Solve real world problems based on technical needs submitted by animal protection & food system innovation orgs.
Utilise the first-ever suite of AI models specifically trained for animal advocacy: Pre-trained & fine-tuned models, along with dedicated cloud compute for each team.
Expert mentorship & post-hackathon support: Top-performing projects will receive continued support to take your work forward after the hackathon, including connections with funders.
Join the community: Be part of a growing movement of like minded people; collaborate, build and come to our post-hackathon social to connect with other animal-passionate people!
Whether you’re an AI engineer, full-stack developer, ML researcher, or just passionate about animals, we hope to see you there!
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EA Global: London 2025
EA Global and EAGx events are designed to help members of the effective altruism community make progress on the world's pressing problems by sharing new thinking and research as well as starting or coordinating on important projects.
EA Global is mostly aimed at people who have a solid understanding of the core ideas of EA and who are taking significant actions based on those ideas. Many EA Global attendees are already professionally working on effective-altruism-inspired projects or figuring out how best to work on such projects.
EAGx conferences are primarily for people who are:
- Familiar with the core ideas of effective altruism
- Interested in learning more about what to do with these ideas
- From the region or country where the conference is taking place (or living there)
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Pre-EAG Pro-Animal Coworking
Friday, 6th June 10am - 4pm
Conveniently located within the O2 Arena, come join other pro-animal EAs for a coworking session starting the morning of the first day of EAG London!
Details below:
- You will need to purchase your own meal when you arrive (£14 minimum - see the menu here).
- We have 10 spots officially reserved, but you can still come find us and join a nearby table if the initial spots at the table fill up.
- Feel free to share the registration link to invite collaborators to join!
This event is made possible by Hive and AI for Animals.
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Pro-Animal EAG Saturday afterparty
Saturday, June 7th at 7pm @ Boom Battle Bar The O2
Join us for our annual pro-animal EAG London afterparty!
Who's invited: Anyone who's currently working on or interested in working on a better future for animals. Non-EAG attendees who fit this criteria are also most welcome! Venue: The 2nd floor of the "Boom Battle Bar" at the O2 (around the conference venue + the same location from last year).
Sponsored by Settled 🍾
This event is made possible by Hive and AI for Animals.
Speakers & Featured Guests
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David Pearce
Philosopher, Bioethicist, Humanity+
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Jeff Sebo
Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, NYU
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Heather Browning
Lecturer at the University of Southampton
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Jonathan Birch
Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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Jonathan Leighton
Executive Director, Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)
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Oscar Horta
Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela | Co-founder, Animal Ethics
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Joey Savoie
Co-Founder & CEO, Ambitious Impact / Charity Entrepreneurship
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Jamie Woodhouse
Volunteer and Founder, Sentientism
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Aaron Boddy
Chief Operating Officer, Shrimp Welfare Project
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Adrià Moret
Researcher & Board Member at the Center for Animal Ethics, Pompeu Fabra University
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And many more!
Steering AI towards a better future for all sentient beings
Testimonials
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"I found that the unconference sessions led to real, tangible project ideas, and I left feeling like we're on the cusp of something huge for animal welfare!"
- Aaron Boddy, Chief Operations Officer, Shrimp Welfare Project
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"AI has the potential to affect nonhuman animals everywhere, and over the past two years, this conference has played a key role in accelerating research about this important and neglected topic. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in AI ethics or animal ethics."
- Jeff Sebo, Director, NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy
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“I loved how the conference brought together numerous groups that don't typically interact. Animal advocates and activists could meet and discuss topics with academics studying precision livestock farming and philosophers researching animal consciousness and digital minds. ”
- Richie Manandhar-Richardson, Data Scientist & Researcher, Bryant Research & Good Growth Co.
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“We presented our vision to map the most important sources of farm animal suffering over the next few years... The audience's enthusiasm and interest in our work were truly motivating.”
Wladimir J. Alonso, Researcher and Director, Center for Welfare Metrics
FAQs
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Through the links at the top of this page.
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Our speaker applications have now closed.
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Our volunteer applications have now closed.
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Yes! Check out the How do I attend? section higher up in this page.
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Yes. Both in person and virtually, the conference and unconference are separate events. You can book a ticket for the conference without applying to either unconference, and you can book for the virtual unconference without booking a ticket for the conference. Or you can book for the conference and the virtual unconference together!
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Please contact Alistair (lead organiser) at londonconference@aiforanimals.org if you have other questions, concerns or ideas.
PLANNING TEAM
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Constance Li
Founder & Executive Director, AI for Animals
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Alistair Stewart
Lead Organiser
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Chloe Jefferson
Operations & Communications Lead
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Emma Moore
Social Media & Design Lead
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Ronen Bar
Agenda Content Developer
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Rebecca Brolin
Volunteer Lead
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Konrad Kozaczek
Agenda Lead
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Miri Muntean
Logistics Lead
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Johannes Pichler
Virtual Unconference Lead
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Max Taylor
In-Person Unconference Support
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