--- title: The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI description: At the Sentient Futures Summit in San Francisco, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers converged to explore how AI could transform animal welfare... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-bay-area-s-animal-welfare-movement-wants-to-recruit-ai-d5jtx8qlq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI | daily.dev og:description: At the Sentient Futures Summit in San Francisco, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers converged to explore how AI could transform animal welfare... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-bay-area-s-animal-welfare-movement-wants-to-recruit-ai-d5jtx8qlq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/d5JtX8qlQ.png og:image:alt: The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary At the Sentient Futures Summit in San Francisco, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers converged to explore how AI could transform animal welfare advocacy. Attendees, many connected to the effective altruism movement, debated training AI models to value animal lives, using AI tools like AlphaFold to advance cultivated meat research, and leveraging expected windfalls from Anthropic employees to fund animal welfare causes. A secondary but significant thread was the philosophical question of AI sentience itself — whether AI systems might one day suffer — and whether that possibility deserves moral consideration alongside animal welfare. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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