The Animal AI Incident Observatory by Courtney Sims

What 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...