Gaining Human Favor: Automated intelligence (AI) or animals?
DANIELA RIBITSCH: Last summer, Google fired Blake Lemoine, one of their software engineers, for publicly claiming that LaMDA, the company’s…
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‘Dominance Through Mentioning’: The fiction of fair coverage of farmed animals
KAREN DAVIS: The media practice of ignoring, trivializing and demeaning farmed animals is a strategy that is well characterized by the phrase…
Ady Gil: The Hollywood big shot saving the world’s animals
AMIR BOGEN: Ady Gil made his fortune in Hollywood and donates most of it to animal welfare. He’s a guardian angel to the animals. Raised in Ramat…
THE INNOVATORS: Animal creativity is linked to popularity and personality
BEKI HOOPER: Most people have seen animals solve problems in one context or another; whether it’s a dog getting food out of a puzzle toy, a squirrel…
‘Rowdy Girl’: New documentary spotlights vegans helping ranchers ditch animal agriculture
SELINA CRAMMOND: At Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, the animals—cows, goats, pigs and even Sealy, the resident turkey—have names because Renee King-Sonnen, a…
International Wildlife Film Festival: Animal docs made with ethics in mind
CORY WALSH: The 46th annual International Wildlife Film Festival is returning with 60 films over seven days, followed by an online option. The goal…
‘I’m a Murderer’: New TV show Poker Face serves-up authentically represented vegan sensibility
BRIGITTE N. McCRAY: In the opening sequence of episode 3 (“The Stall”) of the new hit murder mystery series Poker Face, the character George (Larry…
United Nations SDGs: If we’re not veganizing them, are they really sustainable?
LEE HALL: For-profit companies and charities alike are jumping onto the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs). We all want to…
ETHICAL DE-LIBERATION: What Artificial Intelligence (AI) means for animals
PETER SINGER: The ethics of artificial intelligence has attracted considerable attention, and for good reason. But the ethical implications of AI…
Animal Rights vs. Veganism: The intersection between veganism and animal rights, today and in the past
JORDI CASAMITJANA: Veganism and animal rights are indeed philosophies, in the sense they are particular systems of thought relating to the…