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How AI is helping - and harming - animals | LSE Event

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

📸The recording of our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is now online!

Our panelist Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, and Jeff Sebo discussed how #AI is transforming the lives of animals:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tumQ...

YouTube video by LSE

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

"Seeing animals differently: the science and ethics of sentience" - new article by @birchlse.bsky.social for LSE's
#LSEResearchForTheWorld magazine!

www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Advancing animal welfare legislation | LSE Research

Calling for the UK to become a global leader in animal welfare, Jonathan Birch aims to further shape animal rights policy with new research at the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE.

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

Join our Law, Ethics and Justice Seminar by #LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Kieran Oberman

🗓️ 7 October, 4.30-6pm
📍 LAK 2.06. LSE Campus - and online!

🔗 Zoom registration: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 8d

🐄🐔The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience now got its own website!

👉 www.lse.ac.uk/sentience

🤳 Make sure to follow them on LinkedIn for more updates: www.linkedin.com/company/anim...

AI and animals | Balancing risks and opportunities

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 8d

So excited for our launch event tonight! Make sure to tune in online!

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience!

👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals

📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus

With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg

www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...

6.30pm Tues 30 Sept | Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Leonie Bossert Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Do people better recognize inconsistencies in others’ moral judgments than their own? If so, why?

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 8d

#LSEPhilosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have published their new paper "Are we better at finding inconsistencies in our own moral case judgments or in others’ moral case judgments?" in Psychological and Behavioural Science.

🔓 Link to the article:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This paper explores whether people are more likely to recognize inconsistency in others’ judgments than in their own, and if so, why. It reports two pre-registered online experiments with samples r...

www.tandfonline.com

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 9d

Join our Choice Group Seminar by Bernhard Salow (University of Oxford) this week!

🗓️ Wednesday 1 October, 4.30pm
📍 LSE campus and online

🔗 Mailing list and Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Choice Group Seminar by Bernhard Salow (University of Oxford)

Should you let AI train your dog? The lawless world of AI and animals

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 11d

#AI is transforming the lives of animals at speed, but these huge impacts are going unchecked.

Isabella Logothetis, Spencer Jury @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social argue more must be done to make sure AI works for, not against the interests of other species @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social.

Artificial intelligence could transform our relationships with animals, but more must be done to make sure AI works for the interests of other species.

Should you let AI train your dog? The lawless world of AI and animals

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LSE EUROPP Blog @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 14d

Artificial intelligence is transforming the lives of animals at speed, but these huge impacts are going unnoticed and unregulated.

✍ Isabella Logothetis, Spencer Jury & @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Artificial intelligence could transform our relationships with animals, but more must be done to make sure AI works for the interests of other species.

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 15d

I guess we’ll never know

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you 🙂‍↕️

Depopulation | Luara Ferracioli

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 16d

100% you

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 16d

🥳 The @thetimes.com Good University Guide 2026 has ranked LSE as the number one university in the UK.

#LSEPhilosophy has been ranked as the best department in the country for #Philosophy - for the second year in a row!

👉 To the league table: www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 21d

Join us for the annual Auguste Comte lecture delivered by Luara Ferracioli, a leading thinker on the #philosophy of #immigration and the philosophy of the family.

🗓️ Mon 6 October, 6.30-8pm
📍LSE campus and online
🎟️ The event is free but registration is required

👉 More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/depop...

6.30pm Mon 6 Oct | Luara Ferracioli | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award!

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for letting us now. We updates our department website and the link has changed. Here the news on the new website: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award!

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for letting us now. We updates our department website and the link has changed. Here the news on the new website: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

AI and animals | Balancing risks and opportunities

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience!

👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals

📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus

With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg

www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...

6.30pm Tues 30 Sept | Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Leonie Bossert Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian intervention

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Sep 3

What situations warrant #humanitarian #intervention, and does it always help those it aims to protect?

The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention by Jonathan Parry @lsephilosophy.bsky.social examines the moral complexities, high stakes and consequences involved @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social.

Jonathan Parry's The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention examines the moral complexities involved when nations intervene in foreign states to protect civilians.

Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian intervention - LSE Review of Books

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Global School of Sustainability at LSE @gsos-lse.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 The LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is hiring for an Assistant Professor with a focus on sustainability, and close collaboration with us! ⬇️

LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 20

‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy!

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability

Application deadline: 3 November 2025

More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW✨ What kinds of #HumanRights abuses warrant #humanitarian intervention? And does #intervention effectively help those it aims to protect?

The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention by Jonathan Parry
@lsephilosophy.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social reviewed by Riti Kumari.

Jonathan Parry's The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention examines the moral complexities involved when nations intervene in foreign states to protect civilians. Parry probes critical questions, from…