23 Episodes

  1. Eric Schwitzgebel on user perception of the moral status of AI

    Published: 2/15/2024
  2. Raphaël Millière on large language models

    Published: 7/3/2023
  3. Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion

    Published: 1/19/2023
  4. David Gunkel on robot rights

    Published: 12/5/2022
  5. Kurt Gray on human-robot interaction and mind perception

    Published: 10/30/2022
  6. Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

    Published: 8/10/2022
  7. Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on global priorities research and effective strategies to reduce suffering

    Published: 7/28/2021
  8. Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on moral circle expansion, cause prioritization, and reducing risks of astronomical suffering in the long-term future

    Published: 6/23/2021
  9. Jo Anderson of Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of Rethink Priorities on research for effective animal advocacy

    Published: 2/24/2021
  10. Ajay Dahiya of The Pollination Project on funding grassroots animal advocacy and inner transformation

    Published: 1/21/2021
  11. Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on how we can best help wild animals

    Published: 12/18/2020
  12. Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on why we should help wild animals

    Published: 10/29/2020
  13. Leah Garcés of Mercy For Animals on factory farm investigations, long-term strategy, and animal advocacy during COVID-19

    Published: 8/31/2020
  14. Frank Baumgartner of UNC-Chapel Hill on policy dynamics, lobbying, and issue framing

    Published: 7/22/2020
  15. Elliot Swartz of the Good Food Institute on the bottlenecks to the scale-up of cultured meat and plant-based meat

    Published: 6/17/2020
  16. Laila Kassam of Animal Think Tank on popular protest movements, mass arrests, and publicity stunts

    Published: 5/12/2020
  17. Jayasimha Nuggehalli on capacity building and animal welfare in Asia

    Published: 4/7/2020
  18. Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital on impact investing and animal-free food tech entrepreneurship

    Published: 3/9/2020
  19. Christie Lagally of Rebellyous Foods on scaling up high-quality plant-based foods

    Published: 2/7/2020
  20. Kristof Dhont of University of Kent on intergroup contact research and research careers

    Published: 1/7/2020

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Interviews with activists, social scientists, entrepreneurs and change-makers about the most effective strategies to expand humanity’s moral circle, with an emphasis on expanding the circle to farmed animals. Host Jamie Harris, a researcher at moral expansion think tank Sentience Institute, takes a deep dive with guests into advocacy strategies from political initiatives to corporate campaigns to technological innovation to consumer interventions, and discusses advocacy lessons from history, sociology, and psychology.