The Sentience Institute Podcast
A podcast by Sentience Institute
23 Episodes
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Eric Schwitzgebel on user perception of the moral status of AI
Published: 2/15/2024 -
Raphaël Millière on large language models
Published: 7/3/2023 -
Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion
Published: 1/19/2023 -
David Gunkel on robot rights
Published: 12/5/2022 -
Kurt Gray on human-robot interaction and mind perception
Published: 10/30/2022 -
Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development
Published: 8/10/2022 -
Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on global priorities research and effective strategies to reduce suffering
Published: 7/28/2021 -
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 -
Jo Anderson of Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of Rethink Priorities on research for effective animal advocacy
Published: 2/24/2021 -
Ajay Dahiya of The Pollination Project on funding grassroots animal advocacy and inner transformation
Published: 1/21/2021 -
Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on how we can best help wild animals
Published: 12/18/2020 -
Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on why we should help wild animals
Published: 10/29/2020 -
Leah Garcés of Mercy For Animals on factory farm investigations, long-term strategy, and animal advocacy during COVID-19
Published: 8/31/2020 -
Frank Baumgartner of UNC-Chapel Hill on policy dynamics, lobbying, and issue framing
Published: 7/22/2020 -
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 -
Laila Kassam of Animal Think Tank on popular protest movements, mass arrests, and publicity stunts
Published: 5/12/2020 -
Jayasimha Nuggehalli on capacity building and animal welfare in Asia
Published: 4/7/2020 -
Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital on impact investing and animal-free food tech entrepreneurship
Published: 3/9/2020 -
Christie Lagally of Rebellyous Foods on scaling up high-quality plant-based foods
Published: 2/7/2020 -
Kristof Dhont of University of Kent on intergroup contact research and research careers
Published: 1/7/2020
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.