“The impacts of AI on animal advocacy” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Max Taylor, Sagar K Shah, Hannah McKay🔸, Aaron Boddy🔸

Introduction The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives is rapidly accelerating. Take ChatGPT: released less than three years ago, it now has over a billion weekly users, and is already vastly more capable than the original version. The same goes for other popular AI models, like Google's Gemini or Anthropic's Claude. And that's just the tools that most of us have access to: behind the scenes, companies are increasingly using even more powerful AI for applications as diverse as financial trading, policing, and drug discovery. Animal agriculture is no exception: major producers are already exploring how to integrate AI into their farms. In a couple of decades, the typical farmed pig might be overseen by an AI-powered CCTV system rather than a human farmer; China's pilot ‘pork skyscrapers’ give a taste of what this might look like. This could bring benefits: for example, commercially available systems [...] ---Outline:(00:13) Introduction(02:30) Thomas Richie Manandhar-Richardson, Bryant Research(02:53) Deep Research tools(03:47) Rethinking research work(05:05) Constant experimentation(06:21) Aaron Boddy, Shrimp Welfare Project(06:35) Creating an AI culture(07:29) Precision Welfare(08:43) The beginning of a revolution(09:30) Hannah McKay, Rethink Priorities(09:47) AI's impacts on animals is a huge research topic in itself(10:43) AI-resilient interventions(11:13) Skill-building for an AI-driven future(12:23) Janire Castellano Bueno, Wild Animal Initiative(12:39) AI for wild animals(13:56) AI as an enhancement, not a replacement(15:00) Accelerating writing tasks(15:44) Sagar Shah, Rethink Priorities(15:55) Accelerating research(17:12) How to stay relevant in an AI world(18:39) Don't fall behind(19:03) Conclusion--- First published: September 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7yzupQyiS7arFzvZR/the-impacts-of-ai-on-animal-advocacy --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.