AI FOR ANIMALS
2025 CONFERENCE

March 1 & 2, 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Conference Center

(Virtual Option Available)

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At AI FOR ANIMALS 2025, you’ll get the opportunity to:

  • Engage with experts doing innovative work at the intersection of AI and Animals

  • Learn about the latest projects, technology, and policy

  • Participate in skill-building workshops

  • Network with dedicated people and collaborative groups 

  • & more!

Featured Guests

  • Peter Singer

    Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
    (Virtual)

  • David Pearce

    Philosopher, Bioethicist, Humanity+

  • Jeff Sebo

    Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, NYU

  • Meghan Barrett

    Director, The Barrett Lab - Entomological Research

  • Richard Ngo

    AI expert (former OpenAI, Governance Team)

  • Christopher Berry

    Executive Director, Nonhuman Rights Project

  • Robert Long

    Executive Director, Eleos AI (former Future of Humanity Institute)

  • Lucius Caviola

    Lucius Caviola

    Senior Research Fellow, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford

  • Oscar Horta

    Activist, Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, co-founder, Animal Ethics

  • Jacob Shwartz-Lucas - AI for Animals 2025

    Jacob Shwartz-Lucas

    Director, Animal Pain Research Institute

  • Janire Castellano Bueno

    Janire Castellano Bueno

    Outreach Manager, Wild Animal Initiative

  • Dustin Crummett

    Executive Director, Insect Institute

  • Aaron Boddy

    Aaron Boddy

    Chief Operating Officer, Shrimp Welfare Project

  • James Faville

    Center on Long-term Risk

  • Andrés Gómez Emilsson

    Director of Research, Qualia Research Institute

  • Kathleen Finlinson

    Kathleen Finlinson

    Head of Strategy, Eleos AI

Network, share ideas, and learn with leaders advancing AI to create a better future for all animals.

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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

  • "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

  • “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.

  • “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

FAQ

  • The event will start in the morning of Saturday March 1, 2025 at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr Campus Conference Center and end in the evening of Sunday March 2, 2025.

  • Early bird tickets are $199 for general admission and $75 for those who are students or currently not employed. Supporter tickets with special access to a reception with the speakers is available for $800.

    Ticket prices will increase on Dec 1, 2024.

  • We can mainly offer scholarships for discounted tickets. Travel funding is available on a very limited basis for notable guests who need support. Apply here.

  • We are actively inviting speaker and session proposals. We will also plan to allow general participants to organize their own sessions through an unconference format. Apply here.

  • Yes!

    Exhibitor booths for both days will be $1500 and can be purchased on the same page as registration.

    Sponsorship opportunities are available by request through this form.

  • Yes! And volunteers will also get their ticket price reimbursed. Apply here.

  • We are covering a wide variety of topics including animal consideration in AI models, interspecies communication, precision livestock farming, and welfare of future digital minds.

    In the past, digital minds have been a larger focus of the conference. While we still think this topic is important and welcome sessions and discussions on it, we decided to place more emphasis on animals for this conference for the purpose of generating more practical outcomes in the near future.

  • This conference aims to build the field of how technology can be used to positively impact animals. This will require multidisciplinary collaboration, which we hope will result from this conference. More concrete outcomes include a repository of tech interventions to help animals, project coordination, stakeholder mapping, and identification of aligned incentives.

  • This event will be a “choose your own adventure” with multiple tracks and session formats including lectures, discussion groups, and networking sessions.

    Attendees have the option to create their own sessions through our parallel unconference.

  • Yes, we will have a ticketed VIP pre-conference dinner on Friday at Lighthaven and open casual social gatherings Saturday and Sunday at a nearby house.

    People are also welcome to add their own events to a list of unofficial satellite events, which we will release 1-2 weeks before the conference.

  • If you have questions that aren’t answered by this page, please reach out to conference@aiforanimals.org

See you there!

University of California, Berkeley
March 1 & 2, 2025

Clark Kerr Conference Center
2601 Warring St, Berkeley, CA 94720

 

Want to volunteer or have a question?conference@aiforanimals.org