AI for Animals

How is journalism shaping the conversation around animals and AI? Join Xander Balwit, Brandon Keim, and Betsy Mason, moderated by Max Taylor ??, for a panel discussion at AI for Animals 2025 on how emerging technologies are changing the way animals are represented in media. ?? Panel: Journalism at the Intersection of Animal Representation and Emerging Technologies ?? Saturday 03/01 5pm | UC Berkeley ?? Register Today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

Join Aamir Ahmad (Virtual) at AI for Animals 2025 as he explores how autonomous AI systems are transforming the large-scale tracking of animal behavior and motion. ?? Talk: Large-Scale Autonomous and Non-Invasive Monitoring of Animal Behavior and Motion ?? March 2, 1pm | Virtual Session Discover how AI-powered robotics are enabling ethical, efficient, and scalable wildlife monitoring. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

?? AI for Animals 2025 is this weekend! ?? On March 1-2 at UC Berkeley, leading researchers, advocates, and experts will come together to explore how AI is transforming animal advocacy, policy, and innovation. One of the many key topics we’re highlighting is AI & Animal Advocacy—how AI is being used to support alternative proteins, enhance data-driven advocacy, and drive real-world change for animals. Featured Sessions: ?? AI and the Future of Alternative Protein Development – Noa Weiss ?? Reliable Predictions, Real Impact: From AI Toxicity Models to Data-Driven Animal Advocacy – Alexandra Hammond ?? Real-World AI Implementations for Animal Advocacy – Sam Tucker-Davis ? With 60+ sessions, including talks, panels, workshops, and networking events, AI for Animals 2025 is an exciting event for anyone interested in how AI can reshape the future of animal advocacy. Join us in person at UC Berkeley or virtually and be part of this critical conversation. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

What role should AI play in shaping animal law and governance? ?? At AI for Animals 2025, happening March 1-2 at UC Berkeley, legal experts, ethicists, and AI researchers will discuss how AI is reshaping animal law, legal personhood, and governance frameworks for both human and non-human animals. With 60+ sessions, including talks, panels, and networking opportunities, AI for Animals 2025 is a key event for exploring how AI can drive legal and policy innovation to protect animals. Featured Sessions: ?? Exploring the Promise of AI to Transform Animals into Legal Persons – Rajesh Reddy ?? Panel: Animal Law and AI – Jamie McLaughlin & Joan E. Schaffner (Virtual) ?? Legal Standing, Regulatory Valuation of Animals, Choice Architectures & More – Cass Sunstein (Virtual) ?? Representation Is All You Need – Christopher Berry & Sankalpa Ghose ?? Panel: Animals in the Machine – A Multi-Species Justice Approach for AI Law & Governance – Christine Parker, Simon Coghlan & Leo Bromberg (Virtual) Join us in person at UC Berkeley or virtually to be part of this conversation. ?? Register Today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

How should AI consider and impact animals? From sentience in AI models to the moral status of digital minds and non-human animals, the ethical questions surrounding AI and animals are some of the most pressing of our time. ?? At AI for Animals 2025, happening March 1-2 at UC Berkeley, we’re bringing together leading experts in philosophy, ethics, AI governance, and animal welfare to explore these critical topics. ?? Featured Sessions: ?? Animal-Inspired Approaches to Assessing Sentience in LLMs – Winnie Street & Geoff Keeling ?? Protecting Vulnerable Digital Minds: Beyond Suffering Prevention in AI Welfare Science – Soenke Dr. Ziesche ?? Social Cognition and Thinking About Nonhumans – Janet Pauketat, PhD ?? Ethics, Animals, and AI – Peter Singer (Virtual) ?? How Digital Minds Could Reshape Society – Lucius Caviola ?? Animals and Longtermism: A Guide for the Perplexed – Oscar Horta & Daniela Waldhorn ?? AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals – Soenke Dr. Ziesche & Adria Moret ?? Sentience and the Search for Life: An Astrobiologist’s Perspective – Dante Lauretta (Virtual) ?? Reading & Q&A on Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination – Webb Keane (Virtual) ?? Who Matters More, a Bat, a Bee, a Bot? – Jeff Sebo ?? The Moral Circle, Book Release Reading – Jeff Sebo ?? Preventing Suffering and Engineering Paradise – Andrés Gómez Emilsson ?? Living in Extremely Unequal Civilizations – Richard Ngo (Virtual) With 60+ sessions, including talks, panels, and networking events, AI for Animals 2025 is the place to engage with experts, challenge perspectives, and explore how AI can be developed ethically to benefit all sentient beings. Join us in person at UC Berkeley or virtually to be part of the conversation. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

How is AI transforming the way we understand and care for animals—especially our companion animals? Find out more this weekend at AI for Animals 2025, happening March 1-2 at UC Berkeley. ?? One of the many key themes we are highlighting this week is AI & Companion Animals. Some of the featured sessions include: ?? Talk: Computer Vision Changes Everything – John Honchariw. ?? Talk: Going Deeper Than Tracking: Using AI to Recognize Emotional States and Pain in Animals – Anna Zamansky (Virtual). ?? Talk: Artificial Pets and Animal Empathy – Derek Shiller. Whether you’re attending in person at UC Berkeley or virtually, AI for Animals 2025 offers a unique opportunity to connect with industry leaders, engage in groundbreaking discussions, and explore how AI is revolutionizing our relationship with animals. With 60+ sessions, including talks, panels, workshops, and networking events, this conference explores how AI is shaping the future of animal welfare, conservation, ethics, and beyond. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

?? AI for Animals 2025 is happening this weekend, March 1-2, UC Berkeley. ?? With 60+ sessions featuring talks, panels, workshops, networking events, and more, this conference brings together leading experts to explore the future of AI in animal welfare, conservation, ethics and more. Today, we’re highlighting just one of the many key themes: AI & Wildlife Conservation. Sessions include: ?? Workshop: AI for Conservation with Sara Beery (Virtual) ?? Talk: Breakthroughs in Bioacoustics with Sara Keen ?? Talk: AI for Wild Animal Welfare: Current Work & Future Potential with Janire Castellano This is just a preview of what to expect. AI for Animals 2025 offers a rare opportunity to engage with experts, explore cutting-edge AI applications, and be part of the critical conversations shaping the future of AI and it's impact on animals. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

Owen Martin, PhD candidate at CU Boulder’s Peleg Lab, will be a featured guest at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. ?? Don't miss Owen's talk on FireflAI: Community-Driven Computation for Rare Firefly Population Monitoring. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie Talk Overview: The focus of the session is our solution at the intersection of community science and artificial intelligence tooling which enables near-automated population monitoring of threatened firefly populations. We will walk through our journey developing recording methodologies, disseminating techniques to the national firefly community and local citizen scientists, and constructing the first-ever quantitative dataset of flash patterns. With this we developed and published a neural network capable of classifying species present in the recordings. We also will share applications of unsupervised techniques to assist identification of new, unknown, or understudied species.

Julius Kapembwa, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Zambia and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Animal Ethics, Pompeu Fabra University, will be a virtual featured guest at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. ?? As a Commonwealth Scholar, Dr. Kapembwa earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Reading, focusing on “Wildlife Rights: Human Obligations.” His research delves into the moral rights of wildlife and the ethical responsibilities humans hold in various human-wildlife interfaces. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie

We are excited to announce that John Honchariw, Founder & CEO of Companion, will be a featured guest at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. ?? At Companion, John works with colleagues to explore what we can understand about animals and their health at home using computer vision. ?? Register today: https://lnkd.in/eB76maie