Welfare Biology and AI: What We Can Do Now by Dawn Drescher

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From soil-welfare re­search to the New World Screw­worm: a prac­ti­cal port­fo­lio for wild-in­ver­te­brate welfare.This is part 3 of a five-part se­quence on welfare ecol­ogy. Part 1 in­tro­duces the eth­i­cal premises. Part 2 cov­ers the em­piri­cal land­scape. Part 4 ex­plores a model of in­ver­te­brate suffer­ing. Part 5 cov­ers AI.In part 2, I ar­gued that land use is a key lever for wild-in­ver­te­brate welfare and that pes­ti­cides ap­plied at con­stant net pri­mary pro­duc­tivity (NPP) c...

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