Starkly alarming. You’re a voice of reason in times of insanity.
I would like to know what you think of the future of AI in animal welfare. Will future AI systems factor in animal sentience more than it currently is, or will they exasperate human failure to consistently uphold animal welfare?
Thank you for reading Ellen! AI & animal welfare is a very big unknown, I think. I've heard some people say that as AI becomes more "sentient", it will increase our awareness of the sentience of nonhuman animals too, because it will expand our notion of what is conscious. So far, I think the only tangible impact has been to increase the animal tracking abilities of industrial farms, sadly. But I don't know much about this topic.
Starkly alarming. You’re a voice of reason in times of insanity.
I would like to know what you think of the future of AI in animal welfare. Will future AI systems factor in animal sentience more than it currently is, or will they exasperate human failure to consistently uphold animal welfare?
Thank you for reading Ellen! AI & animal welfare is a very big unknown, I think. I've heard some people say that as AI becomes more "sentient", it will increase our awareness of the sentience of nonhuman animals too, because it will expand our notion of what is conscious. So far, I think the only tangible impact has been to increase the animal tracking abilities of industrial farms, sadly. But I don't know much about this topic.
Thank you for replying! That would be a wonderful outcome, if it did happen…
*exacerbate