“AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: Retrospective” by Alistair Stewart, Johannes Pichler 🔸, Constance Li, AI for Animals

Key takeaway We need less breadth and more depth. Much of the early growth and success of the movement at the intersection of AI, animals and digital minds has come from exchanging ideas, people and resources across these fields. We think we are now approaching a point where more specialisation and a greater focus on action will lead to the most valuable outcomes. Aim The aim of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds (AIADM) 2025 was to bring together leaders in AI and non-human ethics to share ideas, resources and opportunities; and to collaborate on two goals: Using AI to help animals now Making powerful AI go better for all sentient beings, regardless of species or substrate Did we achieve our aim? Yes, we think so! Event overview Organised by AI for Animals, AIADM 2025 brought together almost 900 people in person and virtually across three days in [...] ---Outline:(00:16) Key takeaway(00:39) Aim(02:12) Event overview(05:41) Event takeaways(07:00) High impact and value(07:53) Networking and collaboration(08:43) Movement momentum and direction(09:09) Event comparison(10:43) Content deep dive(10:47) en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Conference speakers on AI, animals, and ethics presenting at London 2025. The image shows four conference speakers presenting at what appears to be an academic or professional conference. Each speaker is shown in their own panel with their name and presentation topic displayed above their photo. The topics focus on AI ethics, animal welfare, and the intersection of artificial intelligence with animal consciousness and welfare. The conference appears to be titled AI, Animals, & Digital Minds London 2025 based on the backdrop visible in one of the panels.(12:13) Core tensions(13:47) Strategic insights(15:05) Emerging priorities(16:02) Talks, panels & workshops(22:01) What went well(23:33) What could be improved for next time(25:24) Budget(28:37) Acknowledgements(29:52) Get involved(30:30) Contact--- First published: July 12th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HJg3CGW4yBxXhD9x2/ai-animals-and-digital-minds-2025-retrospective --- 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.