The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness
Declaration and launch event (with Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, and others) (2024)
Coverage: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Opinion
“Will Animal Welfare Be COP28’s Sacrificial Lamb?” (with Cleo Verkuijl)
TABLE (2023)
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“Elephants Have Feelings and Should Have Rights”
The Los Angeles Times (2023)
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“Fly on the Wall: Why Insects Matter” (with Carody Culver)
The Griffith Review 82 (2023)
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“The Radical Implications of Justice for Animals”
Open Global Rights (2023)
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“Are We Ready for a Multispecies Westward?” (with Leonie Bossert)
Montreal AI Ethics Institute (2023)
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“Principles for AI Welfare Research”
EA Forum (2023)
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“Five Key Questions for Implementing UNEP’s Animal Welfare Nexus Resolution” (with Cleo Verkuijl)
SDG Knowledge Hub (2023)
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“Why Does California Have an Egg Shortage?”
The Los Angeles Times (2023)
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“Why a Supreme Court Case about Pig Farming Matters So Much”
Verfassungsblog (2022)
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“Animal”
New Basics: Planet (2022)
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“Bridging Legal Longtermism and Animal Law” (with Andrew Stawasz)
Verfassungsblog (2022)
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“COVID-19, One Health, and a Right to Health for Human and Nonhuman Animals” (with Laurie Sellars and Kimberly Bernotas)
NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection (2022)
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“The Legal Fight Over California’s Ban on Cruel Cages Will Have National Repercussions” (with Jan Dutkiewicz)
The New Republic (2022)
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“What Should We Do if a Chatbot Has Thoughts and Feelings?”
The Los Angeles Times (2022)
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“Pandemics And Climate Change: Why Animals Are Crucial”
RSPCA 2022 Essay Collection (2022)
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“Sustainable Development Matters for Animals Too” (with Cleo Verkuijl)
Stockholm Environment Institute (2022)
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“Against Human Exceptionalism”
Aeon (2022)
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“Including Animals in Health and Environmental Advocacy”
Faunalytics (2022)
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“Animal Welfare Matters for Sustainable Development” (with Cleo Verkuijl and Jon Green)
SDG Knowledge Hub (2022)
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“Why Does Justice for Animals Matter?”
OUP Blog (2022)
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“We Need to Stop Octopus Farming Before It Starts” (with Claire Hamlett)
Sentient Media (2022)
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“If we balk at killing pigs for organ donations, then we also should rethink killing them for food”
The Chicago Tribune (2022)
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“Seeing Ourselves in Others: Anthropomorphism in Animal Photojournalism” (with Jo-Anne McArthur)
We Animals Media (2021)
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“How Eric Adams can move NYC away from meat and towards progress on climate change” (with Katrina Wyman)
New York Daily News (2021)
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“Don’t farm insects” (with Jason Schukraft)
Aeon (2021)
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“The UK animal sentience bill is good, but animals deserve better” (with Antonia Shann)
Sentient Media (2021)
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“Growing human cells in monkey embryos is problematic – but not for the reasons people think”
Sentient Media (2021)
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“We treat animals as legal objects. We should treat them as legal subjects instead.”
The Law and Economy Project (2020)
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“The coasts are disappearing. We need to protect them for everyone” (with Shaina Sadai)
Sentient Media (2020)
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“Centering animals in climate change adaptation”
NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection (2020)
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“To reduce the risk of pandemics, we must ban factory farms now” (with Nico Stubler)
Sentient Media (2020)
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“Stop treating violence against animals as a game” (with Lori Marino)
Sentient Media (2020)
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“Stop treating animals as ‘invaders’ for simply trying to exist” (with Marina Bolotnikova)
Sentient Media (2020)
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“All we owe to animals”
Aeon (2020)
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“Thanksgiving turkey social media photos help promote our harmful obsession with meat”
NBC THINK (2019)
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“How We Treat Old Chimpanzees — and what that says about us”
The Los Angeles Times (2019)
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“Should Chimpanzees Be Considered Persons?” (with other philosophers)
The New York Times (2018)
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Engagement: 1, 2, 3, 4
Interviews and Coverage
“Should we widen our moral circles to include animals, insects, and AIs? (with Jeff Sebo)”
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (Live Taping) (2024)
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“Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe”
The 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023)
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“Jeff Sebo: Why We’re Wrong about Who Matters”
Bio(un)ethical (2023)
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“Moral Implications of AI Consciousness with Philosopher Jeff Sebo”
AI-Curious with Jeff Wilsner (2023)
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“Do Microbes Matter More than Humans?”
Wired (2023)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Interview with Dr. Jeff Sebo, Part 2 of 2”
Supreme Master TV (2018)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Interview with Dr. Jeff Sebo, Part 1 of 2”
Supreme Master TV (2018)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves”
ABC Radio National (2023)
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“Author Interview: How Should We Improve How Medical and Veterinary Students Learn about Human and Nonhuman Animals?”
AMA Journal of Ethics (2023)
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“Saving Animals (and Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo”
Knowing Animals (2023)
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“Bioethics with Jeff Sebo”
The Animal Turn (2022)
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“The business of livestock and the impact of a California law”
All Sides with Ann Fisher (2022)
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“Animal Rights and Ethics with Professor Jeff Sebo”
Dialexicon Podcast (2022)
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“Q&A with Dr. Jeff Sebo”
The Superposition (2022)
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“Save Animals and We Save Ourselves”
Planet Friendly News (2022)
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“Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone”
ABC Radio National (2022)
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“Interview: Jeff Sebo talks about his new book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves”
FutureFeed (2022)
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“Jeff Sebo, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves”
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (2022)
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“Author Jeff Sebo supports cell-ag development”
Slaughter-Free America (2022)
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“Save animals to save ourselves? Surge speaks to author and academic Jeff Sebo”
Surge (2022)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Jeff Sebo on pandemics, climate change, and animal rights”
Storytelling Animals (2022)
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“Jeff Sebo’s Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves”
The Page 99 Test (2022)
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“Lessons From COVID-19 Pandemic by Jeff Sebo”
The Perfect Planet Podcast (2022)
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“Jeff Sebo to discuss human-nonhuman animal connection in author talk”
The North Salem Post (2022)
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“Should We Save Animals? | Jeffrey Sebo”
Brain in a Vat (2022)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves with Jeff Sebo”
Embrace the Void (2022)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves – Jeff Sebo with Lauren van Patter”
The Philosopher (2022)
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“Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves with Jeff Sebo”
Our Hen House (2022)
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“How Should We Treat Insects?”
The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC News (2021)
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“Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals”
Interchange, WFHB radio (2021)
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“Bioethics Symposium with Jeff Sebo”
Bioethics Symposium (2021)
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“Animals in the Anthropocene – Jo-Anne McArthur with Jeff Sebo”
Cafe Culture Northeast (2021)
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“Veganism with Jeff Sebo”
ACT Radio (2021)
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“How to Prevent Future Pandemics”
Thinking Out Loud (2021)
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“Change Is Possible But Hard – Jeff Sebo”
Sentientist Conversations (2021)
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“Animal Consciousness with Jeff Sebo”
Embrace the Void (2020)
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“Jeff Sebo on Centering Animals in Climate Change Policies”
Our Hen House (2020)
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“Ethics in the time of Corona”
Philosophical Disquisitions (2020)
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“Bodies on the Line”
For Food’s Sake (2020)
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“Making Animal Ethics Matter with Jeff Sebo”
The Other Animals, WWDB-AM (2020)
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“Beasts’ Burdens: On Climate Change and Nonhuman Animals”
Interchange, WFHB radio (2020)
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“In Conversation with Jeff Sebo”
VGN News (2019)
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“Interview with Jeff Sebo (and Smoky)”
The Daily Ant (2019)
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“Uncivil Disobedience”
Hi-Phi Nation (2019)
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“Why the Debate between Vegans and Meat-Eaters is Pointless”
The Age (2019)
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“The Moral Problem of Other Minds”
Algocracy and the Transhumanist Project (2019)
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“Food, Animals, and the Environment”
Our Hen House (2019)
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“Chimpanzee Rights”
Knowing Animals (2019)
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“The Ethics and Climate Change Relationship, Part 2 of 2”
Supreme Master TV (2018)
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“The Ethics and Climate Change Relationship, Part 1 of 2”
Supreme Master TV (2018)
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“How Close Are We to Real-Life Westworld Robots?”
Vulture (2018)
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“Animals and Climate Change”
Knowing Animals (2018)
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“Animal Rights, Ethics, and Current Practices”
Coastline (2017)
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“Platter Chatter”
endeavors (2016)
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“The Ethics of Humor” (with Luvell Anderson)
North Carolina Public Radio (2016)
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Presentations
“Towards a Global Ban on Factory Farming by 2050”
Lewis & Clark Law School
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“Investigating Digital Minds”
Foresight Institute
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“The Legal Status of Animals and AIs”
Yale Law School (2022)
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“The Sentience and Moral Status of AIs”
AI for Good (2022)
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“AI Sentience and Ethics”
NYU Department of Medical Ethics (2022)
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“Artificial Sentience and the Ethics of Connected Minds”
10th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research (2022)
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“Animal Ethics in a Human World” (Keynote Address)
Conference on Human-Animal Relations in the Anthropocene (2022)
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“Book Launch: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves”
Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) (2022)
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“Animals as Drivers of Climate Change”
Animals, Climate Change, and Global Health Webinar (2020)
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“Animals in a Changing Climate: Science, Ethics, and Policy”
28th Annual Animal Law Conference (2020)
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“A Utilitarian Case for Animal Rights”
Effective Altruism Global Conference, London (2019)
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“Animal Experimentation in Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future”
Scientist Action and Advocacy Network, New York University (2019)
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“The Case for Nonhuman Personhood”
Harvard Law School (2018)
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“Effective Altruism and Transformative Values” (with L.A. Paul)
Ethics of Giving Conference, University of St. Andrews (2017)
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“Animals and Climate Change”
Conference On Animal and Environmental Ethics, University of Montreal (2017)
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“Animal Studies as an Interdisciplinary Field”
Symposium on Effective Animal Advocacy, Princeton University (2016)
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“Panel on Globalization”
Celebration of Inquiry, Coastal Carolina University (2016)
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“Animal Advocacy and Systemic Change”
Effective Altruism Global Conference, Google HQ (2015)
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“Moral Status”
Wireless Philosophy (2014)
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