05 Feb 2024 --- The proliferation of AI systems is exacerbating the issue of speciesism and undermining animal welfare reform and the transition to plant-based diets, warn animal protection groups. Incoming regulation, notably the highly anticipated EU AI Act, fails to address the potential impacts of AI systems on animal welfare. Speciesism is an increasingly influential idea in animal ethics that moral favoritism toward members of one’s own species is a prejudice, similar to sexism and racism.
