Just as AI and other cutting-edge tools create unprecedented opportunities for understanding and protecting nonhuman animals, they also pose serious risks of further manipulation and exploitation.

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

Source: Artemy Voikhansky, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. According to the World Health Organization, noise caused by human activities is one of the most hazardous ...