Summary If you think future AI systems should extend moral consideration to non-human sentient beings, there’s something concrete you can do about it right now. It’s free, it takes thirty seconds, and you don’t need to log in. Go to hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai, type a prompt about animal welfare or digital sentience,...
Jasmine Brazilek & Miles Tidmarsh: Compassion Aligned Machine Learning Preprint, March 2026: Full paper (PDF) | HuggingFace resources TL;DR We show that fine-tuning language models on a small number of synthetic midtraining/pretraining-style[1] documents (not instruction-tuning data) can improve their compassionate reasoning about animals. Our document-tuned model scores 77% on a...
By Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) AI agents are being used to act on our behalf: booking flights, planning holidays, making purchases, but what happens when the most relevant search result is an elephant trekking tour, a dolphin captivity show, or tickets to a bullfight? We built TAC (Travel Agent...