The Animal AI Incident Observatory

Published on July 14, 2026 2:04 PM GMTWhat we’re buildingRené Itah and I are building a public platform to track incidents of AI-caused harm to non-human animals. Some examples of these harms include autonomous vehicles hitting animals on roads, smart home systems creating unsafe conditions for companion animals, and robots interfering with nesting and migratory patterns in wildlife.Our design ingests data from multiple different sources and uses an LLM to detect instances of AI-caused harm to n...