Adrià Moret

AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals - Philosophy & Technology AI alignment efforts and proposals try to make AI systems ethical, safe and beneficial for humans by making them follow human intentions, preferences or values. However, these proposals largely disreg...

And see our original 2025 article "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Navigating AI-Animal Alignment: A Reply to Coghlan and Parker - Philosophy & Technology This commentary responds to Coghlan and Parker's commentary on our paper "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" (2025). We clarify that our emphasis on "basic" alignment with animal welfare in...

See the full response here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our response to Coglan & Parker's commentary on our 2025 paper with @petersinger.info, Yip Fai Tse, & @ziesche.bsky.social is out in P&T!

We argue adequate consideration of animals' interests requires advancing beyond basic AI-animal alignment as it becomes feasible and desirable.

Link below.

Great to see Anthropic's constitution include concern for the welfare of animals, Claude, and other AI systems.

The document is also a great example of the important role philosophy should play in AI alignment.

Hopefully, other leading AI companies follow suit.

www.anthropic.com/constitution

Check out this great paper on what political liberalism should look like when we take seriously the interests and claims of all sentient beings!

Great opportunity to publish in the Journal of Ethics special issue on AI & animals, co-edited by Catia Faria and Yip Fai Tse!

Topics: AI ethics & nonhumans, AI's impact on animals, future perspectives on AI & animals

Send a 500-word abstract by Dec 22!
link.springer.com/collections/...

Our paper "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" with
@petersinger.info, Yip Fai Tse, and @ziesche.bsky.social , is out open access at Philosophy & Technology!

t.co/qBDOZU6ZZy

1/ My TEDx talk “What Do We Owe AI?” is now live! AI is advancing fast, and our relationships with AI systems are changing too. Some think AI could soon be sentient and deserve care. Are they right? What if the only honest answer is: maybe? 🧵+🔗👇

1/ Our paper "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" with @petersinger.info, Yip Fai Tse and @ziesche.bsky.social,
has been accepted for publication at Philosophy & Technology!

We argue that frontier AIs should be aligned with basic concern for animal welfare and propose how🧵

Yip Fai Tse, Adrià Moret, Soenke Ziesche & Peter Singer, AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals - PhilPapers AI alignment efforts and proposals try to make AI systems ethical, safe and beneficial for humans by making them follow human intentions, preferences or values. However, these proposals largely disreg...

10/ Here is the paper: philpapers.org/rec/TSEAAT

Feedback welcome!

9/ In the conclusion, we provide low-cost, realistic policy recommendations for AI companies and governments to ensure frontier AIs have some basic concern for the welfare of the vast majority of moral patients.

8/ The indirect approach is immediately implementable. AI companies could add simple principles like the following to the normative principles present in their alignment documents (i.e. ModelSpec, the Constitution...):

7/ We propose practical implementation through both direct methods (using animal welfare science, bioacoustics, neurotechnology) and indirect methods (adding basic animal welfare principles to existing alignment documents, i.e. ModelSpec, the Constitution).

6/ Our solution: "Alignment with a Basic Level of Animal Welfare" AI systems should at least minimize harm to animals when achievable at low cost, without requiring them to prioritize animals over humans or continuously engage in moralizing, preachy messaging about animal welfare.

5/ Long-term risks are even more concerning. If advanced AI systems lack basic consideration for animal welfare, they could lock in speciesist values for centuries, increasing the likelihood that animal suffering scales by orders of magnitude.

4/ This omission creates significant near-term risks: LLMs might entrench speciesist biases, AI-controlled vehicles might lead to increased animal deaths, and AI used to manage animals in factory farms could optimize for efficiency, increasing and prolonging the harms they suffer.

3/ Specifically, current alignment techniques (RLHF, Constitutional AI, deliberative alignment) explicitly focus on preventing harm to humans and even to property and environment, but extend no concern to animal welfare in their normative instructions (ModelSpec, the Constitution)

2/ We show that non-human animals—despite being 99.9% of sentient beings—are almost entirely excluded from AI alignment efforts and frameworks.

1/ Our paper "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" with @petersinger.info, Yip Fai Tse and @ziesche.bsky.social,
has been accepted for publication at Philosophy & Technology!

We argue that frontier AIs should be aligned with basic concern for animal welfare and propose how🧵

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Feel free to share this short guide that others and I developed for anyone who has interacted with an AI that seemed conscious — or simply wondered if they could be. whenaiseemsconscious.org

YouTube video by AI for Animals AI Welfare Risks: Four Tentative AI Welfare Policies | Adrià Moret | AIADM London 2025

🎥 Excited to share that the recording of my presentation "AI Welfare Risks" from the AIADM London 2025 Conference is now live!

I make the case for near-term AI welfare and propose 4 concrete policies for leading AI companies to reduce welfare risks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6w4...

Participaré en las jornadas "La IA y las fronteras de la consideración moral" | 26-27 sept | USC, Santiago

¿Pueden los sistemas de IA ser moralmente considerables? 🤖 ¿Cómo deben impactar a los animales? 🐦

¡Se aceptan propuestas de presentaciones!

sites.google.com/view/iaycons...

AI welfare risks - Philosophical Studies In the coming years or decades, as frontier AI systems become more capable and agentic, it is increasingly likely that they meet the sufficient conditions to be welfare subjects under the three major ...

My paper "AI Welfare Risks" is now available open access at Philosophical Studies!

I argue that AI development and safety efforts pose near-term risks of harming AI systems themselves, and propose tentative policies leading AI labs could implement to reduce them

link.springer.com/article/10.1....

AI welfare risks - Philosophical Studies In the coming years or decades, as frontier AI systems become more capable and agentic, it is increasingly likely that they meet the sufficient conditions to be welfare subjects under the three major ...

My paper "AI Welfare Risks" is now available open access at Philosophical Studies!

I argue that AI development and safety efforts pose near-term risks of harming AI systems themselves, and propose tentative policies leading AI labs could implement to reduce them

link.springer.com/article/10.1....

The useful uselessness of art Reflections upon the discovery of the concept of "art therapy"

what is art for?
my girlfriend wrote about it in her new Substack!

open.substack.com/pub/nadiaend...

The useful uselessness of art Reflections upon the discovery of the concept of "art therapy"

what is art for?
my girlfriend wrote about it in her new Substack!

open.substack.com/pub/nadiaend...

still maximizing happiness, all these years later 🙏