AI FOR ANIMALS
2025 CONFERENCE
Thank you for attending! Recordings and recap will be available soon.
The AI, Animals, & Digital Minds Conference will take place in London, Friday 30th May to Sunday 1st June 2025.
We aim to build a multidisciplinary field AROUND how technology can positively impact animals.
SESSIONS COVERED
Animal consideration in AI models
Advocacy and technology
Interspecies communication
Animal law and veterinary medicine
Precision livestock farming
Digital minds and artificial agents
And more!
Featured Guests
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Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University
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Meghan Barrett
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David Pearce
Philosopher, Bioethicist, Humanity+
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Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University (Virtual)
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Sara Beery
Assistant Professor, MIT – Computer Vision for the Environment & AI for Conservation (Virtual)
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Rajesh Reddy
Animal Law Program Director, Lewis & Clark Law School
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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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Christopher Berry
Executive Director, Nonhuman Rights Project
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Aamir Ahmad
Deputy Director of Research, Flight Robotics and Perception Group, University of Stuttgart (Virtual)
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Josh Balk
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Xander Balwit
Editor-In-Chief, Asimov Press
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Kyle Behrend
Founder, NFPs.ai
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Jonathan Birch
Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics (Virtual)
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Aaron Boddy
Chief Operating Officer, Shrimp Welfare Project
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Lewis Bollard
Program Director, Farm Animal Welfare, Open Philanthropy
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Lev Bromberg
PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (Virtual)
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Janire Castellano Bueno
Outreach Manager, Wild Animal Initiative
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Lucius Caviola
Moral Psychologist, University of Oxford
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Dustin Crummett
Executive Director, The Insect Institute
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Zachary Eagleton
Applied Biotech Welfare Researcher, Independent
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Director of Research, Qualia Research Institute
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Tse Yip Fai
AI and Animal Ethics Researcher, formerly Princeton University and Foresight Institute
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James Faville
Community Associate, Center on Long-Term Risk
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Kathleen Finlinson
Head of Strategy, Eleos AI
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Bob Fischer
Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University
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Alexandra Hammond
Data Scientist and Chemoinformatics Ph.D Student
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Courtney Handman
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
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John Honchariw
Founder and CEO, Companion
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Oscar Horta
Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela — Co-founder, Animal Ethics
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Robert Long
Executive Director,
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Mikko Järvenpää
Founder, Sentient Media and Worldshapers
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Sarah Juarez
Veterinarian in Precision Animal Health
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Julius Kapembwa
Lecturer, University of Zambia, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University (Virtual)
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Webb Keane
George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Virtual)
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Brandon Keim
Journalist and Author
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Robin Larson
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
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Dante Lauretta
Regents Professor, University of Arizona; Principal Investigator, OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
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Betsy Mason
Freelance Science Journalist and Editor
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Jamie McLaughlin
Founder, Three Pearls Charities Inc.
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Owen Martin
Ph.D candidate at University of Colorado Boulder
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Carlos Morales
Partner, Deloitte, and Founding Partner, Founder, AI4Animals (Virtual)
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Adrià Moret
Board Member, Center for Animal Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University
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Suresh Neethirajan
Professor and University Research Chair in Digital Livestock Farming at Dalhousie University (Virtual)
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Richard Ngo
AI expert, former OpenAI Governance Team
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Kikiope Oluwarore
Executive Director, One Health and Development Initiative
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Orr Paradise
Theory of Computation group, UC Berkeley & CETI
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Christine Parker
Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (Virtual)
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Janet Pauketat
Research Fellow, Sentience Institute
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Joan E. Schaffner
Associate Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director Animal Legal Education Initiative, The George Washington University Law School (Virtual)
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Amber Sheldon
PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Boston University
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Derek Shiller
Senior Researcher, Worldview Investigations Team, Rethink Priorities
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Jean-Sebastien Spratt
Co-Founder, Prophet AI
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Jacob Shwartz-Lucas
Executive Director, The Animal Pain Research Institute
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Max Taylor
Researcher, Animal Charity Evaluators and Author, AI for Animals Newsletter
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Sam Tucker
Executive Director of Open Paws
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Eli Tyre
Project Lead, Palisade Research
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Noa Weiss
AI & Machine Learning Engineer
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Anna Zamansky
Head of Tech4Animals, University of Haifa (Virtual)
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Soenke Ziesche
AI Readiness Lead Expert, United Nations
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And more!
Before the Conference
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Wednesday, Feb 26: Hackathon in SF
Build practical AI tools for animal advocacy organizations. No longer accepting applicants, but open to visitors. RSVP here.
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Friday, Feb 28: Animal Benchmark Building Session
Join us for a 4-hour coworking session to create a light benchmark to assess risk of harm LLMs may cause to animals here.
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Friday, Feb 28: Dinner at Lighthaven
Relaxed dinner with special guests and Bay Area AI researchers (add-on with AI for Animals Conference registration)
watch to learn more
You can get a sneak peek at four incredible organizations that will be represented at the conference below!
advance AI towards a better future for all animals
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
Core Team
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Sankalpa Ghose
Founder, OpenTelemed.Org & AnimalFriendly.AI
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Constance Li
Founder, AI for Animals — Co-founder, Hive
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Santeri Tani
Co-founder, Finnish Center for Safe AI Tutke