Ensuring the future of AI benefits all sentient beings

AI can harm animals through its application in industries that exploit them. For instance, AI is used to automate processes in factory farming to increase efficiency and reduce costs, which can lead to increased exploitation of animals. AI systems also exhibit speciesist biases, which can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and attitudes towards certain animal species, particularly farmed animals. This speciesism in AI can influence public opinion and behaviors negatively towards these animals.

AI can significantly benefit animal advocacy efforts by automating and enhancing various tasks such as public outreach, translation of campaign content, routine task automation, source verification, brainstorming, writing grants, personalizing messaging, predicting campaign outcomes, and more. Specifically tailored AI can help animal-friendly organizations operate more efficiently and effectively, potentially increasing their impact on animal welfare and rights.

Specialized AI is essential for the animal rights movement as it enhances factual accuracy in discussions about animal rights and minimizes the propagation of speciesist content. By being tailored specifically for this domain, such AI systems require less prompt engineering, making them more user-friendly for animal advocates who may not be tech-savvy. Additionally, these specialized tools are designed to perform better in real-world scenarios, directly contributing to more effective advocacy efforts and better outcomes for animals. For a more detailed explanation, see our blog post on why animal advocates need our own large language model.

While prompt engineering can mitigate biases to some extent, it's not a comprehensive solution, especially in external or automated settings. Most users, including animal advocates, lack the expertise in prompt engineering, making it less feasible to consistently produce bias-free content. A dedicated, open-source, animal-aligned AI ensures that these biases are addressed at the source, providing a more systematic and reliable solution to the problem of speciesist bias in AI.

Specialized AI can greatly enhance various tasks within animal advocacy, particularly in personalizing persuasion and campaign strategies. This technology can automate routine tasks, draft campaign materials, translate content, and personalize outreach messages, making campaigns more targeted and effective. Additionally, specialized AI excels in identifying misinformation and automating responses to public inquiries, which helps in maintaining consistent and accurate advocacy messages. These capabilities allow animal rights organizations to optimize their resources and extend their impact more efficiently.

Open Paws assists animal rights groups by providing free technical support, training and implementation. This includes helping organizations to build specialized AI tools that make their operations faster, cheaper, and more effective. Open Paws collaborates with various organizations, providing them with the necessary AI technology tailored to their specific needs, thereby enhancing their success in various advocacy interventions​.

Open Paws provides developers with comprehensive data, research and documentation that highlights both the importance of considering animal rights in AI development and best practises for doing so from a technical and practical perspective. We curate speciesism-free datasets, which serve as a foundational resource for training truly safe and bias-free AI models, and we open source our own AI models.