“AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 - Retrospective” by Constance Li, Hive (formerly Impactful Animal Advocacy)

This is a retrospective of the AIADM 2024 Conference, Retreat, and Co-working in London. Tl;dr: ~130 people joined together over the span of three days to learn, connect, and make progress towards making AI safe for nonhumans.Attendees from the onsite AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference outside LSE Background This event followed in the footsteps of the October 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics conference held at Princeton by Peter Singer, Tse Yip Fai, Leonie Bossert and Thilo Hagendorff. It was planned in a [formerly private] AI Coalition channel on the Hive Slack that many of the attendees of the original conference were invited to for the purposes of continuing conversation. It was here that I discovered that running the conference in 2024 would be highly counterfactual because Peter Singer was retiring from Princeton and none of the previous organizers were planning on repeating [...] ---Outline:(00:37) Background(01:30) Objective(02:21) Timing and location(02:54) Attendees(03:20) Conference(04:02) Sessions(04:05) AI for Animals(04:50) Digital Minds(05:09) Interspecies Communication(05:38) Retreat(08:04) Lightning Talks(08:57) Virtual retreat(09:31) Co-Working(10:07) Follow-up Opportunities(10:11) Subscribe to AI for Animals Newsletter(10:46) Join the AI Coalition on Hive(11:09) Work with us(11:39) Donate to this work(12:02) Tangible Outcomes(13:51) Feedback from participants--- First published: June 19th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gKGYnuZLymxFEgBK9/ai-animals-and-digital-minds-2024-retrospective --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.