TL;DR

• We are launching a pooled fund for projects at the AIxAnimals intersection.
• We are open to a broad set of ideas, but prioritize those in the following categories:
  • Empowering Animal Advocates
  • Strategic Field-building and Coordination
  • Actionable Research and Strategic Foresight
• Apply here by April 30th.

Introduction

Over the next decade, AI will increasingly shape how we produce food, manage ecosystems, and interact with animals, presenting some of the most significant risks and opportunities the animal advocacy movement has faced. For example, if AI-enabled precision livestock farming (PLF) takes off, it could alter the daily experience of billions or even trillions of animals every year. Animal advocacy efforts could be supercharged or face new bottlenecks. New AI tools could rapidly accelerate alternative protein or animal welfare research, or AI could be used to entrench factory farming, unblock bottlenecks for scaling the farming of fishes or insects, and create new forms of exploitation we can't yet foresee.

Despite these high stakes, there is currently very little work being done at the intersection of AI and animal advocacy. To fill this gap, a group of funders is launching a targeted, experimental funding initiative. Our goal is to equip the animal [...]

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Outline:

(00:11) TL;DR

(00:35) Introduction

(01:50) Our Approach: A Focused, Experimental Fund

(02:56) Priority Categories

(03:16) I. Empowering Animal Advocates

(04:18) II. Strategic Field-Building and Coordination

(05:31) III. Actionable Research & Strategic Foresight

(07:06) Funding and Logistics

(08:20) Submission Instructions

(08:32) Join the RFP as a contributor

(09:19) Questions?

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