Imagine your cat could talk to you and tell you whether she enjoyed her life with you or farmed animals could verbalise their suffering in human language. What sounds like science-fiction may soon be reality. Together with communication scientist Maarten Reesink, we explore the possibilities and dangers of using AI to facilitate human-nonhuman animal communication.

Further reading: Karen Bakker - The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

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