Today the biggest threat to #sentientity is humanity.
Instead, we could choose to be its greatest hope.

What Are Zoos For? - Clip from Sentientism ep:223 with Heather Browning and Walter Veit on YouTube/Podcast - hope you enjoy the full thing!

And here's the full thing: https://youtu.be/eb74vIv6b9I (also on Sentientism podcast as usual)

Powerful AIs could adopt:

A) Default human worldviews 😱

B) Alien worldviews completely untethered from our evolved biological context and embodiment 🤯

C) #sentientism’s “evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings“ 🤞 💚

New #Sentientism #YouTube playlist! "Psychology, Sociology and Change".
We talk about these themes in almost every Sentientism conversation but these episodes are the most psych/socio/change focused. A treasure trove for you to explore!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCnyhM9ibhvY4uLgxKj9fso

Hugo award winning #scifi author Peter Watts on our newly remastered re-release of #Sentientism ep: 56 from 2021.
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sentientism/id1540408008
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kaCPb37JdzppCA8brcWdI?si=uhF6IWjbQgyIxpDyN2lHAg

We desperately need "A Climate of Truth". Mike Berners-Lee joins me for Sentientism episode 224 on YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation there - and here's a clip! "A Climate of Truth" is out now from Cambridge University Press.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2025/03/25/new-centre-to-study-animal-sentience-opens-at-lse/ 

Compassion alone isn't enough - good epistemology matters too... https://newrepublic.com/article/193307/nature-solutionism-vaccines-beef-climate

Working towards More Compassionate Models and even Sentientist AI...? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4LimpA4pyLemxN4BF/ai-moral-alignment-the-most-important-goal-of-our-generation

New Sentientism England local group! Come join us and look out for some in-person meet-ups... https://www.facebook.com/groups/672671795314891/ Thanks Michael for setting this up 🤩

If we care about a sentient being… we have compassion or moral consideration for them… we want them treated humanely…

What is our minimal moral obligation to them? What most basic rights do they have? What core limits are there on what we should or should not do to them?

If phenomenal consciousness is an illusion does that destroy ethics or extend it? A great article by Keith Frankish linking two deep Sentientism themes... philosophy of mind (what is consciousness?) and the extension of moral scope way beyond humanity. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-024-09562-5

Looking forward to speaking about the Sentientism worldview at this conference for maybe the most important people 🤩... the teachers helping young people explore, examine and maybe even choose or change worldviews. https://chesterdbe.co.uk/re-conference-2025 #ReTeach #SentientistEducation

Great to see more atheist, humanist, sceptic, secular and freethinking communities breaking the taboo against talking about non-human sentient animal ethics... There's no rational reason to exclude non-human sentient beings from serious moral consideration: https://www.youtube.com/live/WfPeXeqOMG8?si=FvGAOhrpXroerZ3z

Our Sentientism podcast audience is tiny - but you're wonderful people 😍 Thanks for helping us get to 70k downloads by subscribing, rating &sharing! Each nudges the world towards more compassionate, naturalistic thinking 🌎
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3c9OG5Mwf7PGChWFYBzuQI?si=bcb7208befc94d56
🍏: https://apple.co/391khQO

New #Transfarmation initiative in Europe: https://farmadaptation.org/

Can you imagine a United Nations that cares about animals and all sentient beings? Sentientity as well as humanity? Sentient rights as well as human rights? Anders Reagan from the PACS Institute joins me for episode 225 of the Sentientism podcast and YouTube. Please share if you like it! https://youtu.be/ze-Dk3Lkh3o

If AIs Are Sentient They Will Know Animal Suffering is Bad. Ronen Bar of The Moral Alignment Center on Sentientism Ep:226. Find our full conversation on the Sentientism YouTube: https://youtu.be/9hDIQj-i44M or podcast.

"Changed My Mind" is a brand new, hopefully soon to be top tier, podcast that resonates well with the #Sentientism worldview because:
1) It's about changing our minds, in good directions, based on evidence and reasoning
2) Non-human sentient beings are just naturally part of every conversation - because why wouldn't they be?
Go listen, subscribe and share! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/changed-my-mind/id1795894038