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Artificial Intelligence and Animal Welfare: Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Technologies (1 Oct 2026)

ChatGPT was launched in late 2022, and the last four years have seen a revolution in how society finds and understands information. AI can affect animal welfare on a range of scales, from supporting precision livestock farming with custom algorithms, to fabricating scientific references about animal welfare, to delivering personalised care advice for a beloved companion animal. This session draws on the Animal Welfare Centre interdisciplinary research expertise to provide animal welfare practitioners with practical guidance and cutting edge research on how AI is changing the way we interact with animals in our care.

You can access the slides and a recorded version of the session.

Slides and recording

Webinar 1 Oct slides (1.26 MB / PDF)

Webinar

Articles

MacKay, J. R. D., & Connelly, L. (2026). Tail wagging cats: Veterinary implications of AI‐generated video. Veterinary Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.70973 

MacKay, J.R.D., Connelly, L. and Doyle, R. (2026) ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheepdogs? Animal Welfare Experts And generative AI Disagree on Companion Animal Welfare’. Zenodo. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22009763.

MacKay & Connelly, From Bot-Farm To For-You-Page Fork: Consuming The Whole Digital Animal, under review in Journal of Business Ethics

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