You're pledging to donate if the project hits its minimum goal and gets approved. If not, your funds will be returned.
The AI–Animal Observatory gathers intelligence about the field of AI–animal interactions and incidents, with a particular focus on autonomous systems developed for commercial farming.
The AIAO's goal is to make AI and automation go well for animals. AIAO's publications and dossiers will arm advocates with strategy-guiding insights and a compelling statistical case for regulation and resource allocation dedicated to AIxAnimals issues.
Single salary, data pipeline development, and travel to agricultural technology conferences in 2026
Anonymous solo founder (must be covert to protect intel-gathering activities)
There is no legislative will to regulate AIxAnimals (alignment is irrelevant to commercial farming so far, as all of these autonomous systems rely on very unsophisticated technology; thus regulation is the most plausible solution)
$60k from the Falcon Fund, to be disbursed on this Manifund listing
Falcon Fund
about 4 hours agoI've been looking for someone to do this for a while, and I found this person from the Sentient Futures fellowship. They were recommended to me, and I worked with them on the shape of this project.
It's very important to know how the animal agriculture industry is adopting technology so we can determine if any of them are very bad and we can build solutions that are better.
I also paid back a $4000 loan so the total size of the grant is $64000