The Sentience Institute Podcast

By Sentience Institute

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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.

Episode Date
Eric Schwitzgebel on user perception of the moral status of AI
Feb 15, 2024
Raphaël Millière on large language models
Jul 03, 2023
Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion
Jan 19, 2023
David Gunkel on robot rights
Dec 05, 2022
Kurt Gray on human-robot interaction and mind perception
Oct 30, 2022
Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development
Aug 10, 2022
Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on global priorities research and effective strategies to reduce suffering
Jul 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
Jun 23, 2021
Jo Anderson of Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of Rethink Priorities on research for effective animal advocacy
Feb 24, 2021
Ajay Dahiya of The Pollination Project on funding grassroots animal advocacy and inner transformation
Jan 21, 2021
Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on how we can best help wild animals
Dec 18, 2020
Oscar Horta of the University of Santiago de Compostela on why we should help wild animals
Oct 29, 2020
Leah Garcés of Mercy For Animals on factory farm investigations, long-term strategy, and animal advocacy during COVID-19
Aug 31, 2020
Frank Baumgartner of UNC-Chapel Hill on policy dynamics, lobbying, and issue framing
Jul 22, 2020
Elliot Swartz of the Good Food Institute on the bottlenecks to the scale-up of cultured meat and plant-based meat
Jun 17, 2020
Laila Kassam of Animal Think Tank on popular protest movements, mass arrests, and publicity stunts
May 12, 2020
Jayasimha Nuggehalli on capacity building and animal welfare in Asia
Apr 07, 2020
Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital on impact investing and animal-free food tech entrepreneurship
Mar 09, 2020
Christie Lagally of Rebellyous Foods on scaling up high-quality plant-based foods
Feb 07, 2020
Kristof Dhont of University of Kent on intergroup contact research and research careers
Jan 07, 2020
Pei Su of ACTAsia on humane education in China
Dec 03, 2019
Ria Rehberg of Veganuary on driving institutional change through online campaigns
Dec 03, 2019
Kevin Schneider of the Nonhuman Rights Project on using litigation to expand the moral circle
Dec 03, 2019