The threats & opportunities of tool AI are driven by the worldviews of their human designers & users.

The threats & opportunities of agentic AI are driven by the AIs’ own worldviews.

Either way, the @sentientism worldview would be radically better than default human worldviews.

"What A Fish Knows" and "Super Fly" author & ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, joins me for episode 228 of the #Sentientism podcast and YouTube. Find our full conversation there. Here's a taster clip!

If our worldview hard-codes in even one specific, unchallengeable belief isn’t it, by definition, dogmatic?

Is the Sentientism worldview anti-dogmatic or a dogma?
Is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" so generic it says nothing, or does it drive radical change?
Find out on the Changed My Mind podcast, then maybe change your mind! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/should-you-make-changing-your-mind-your-worldview-with/id1795894038?i=1000705377004

Happy #worldsentientismday! (summer version - we have one for each solstice 🙂)
To celebrate, here's an invite to our first ever Sentientism in person meetup. If you're in range of London, come join us. As with all our events and communities its free and open to anyone interested whether you agree with "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" or not!
https://sentientism.info/our-first-irl-sentientism-meetup-plus-education-and-other-updates

Great new VINE resource on "Understanding veganism as a worldview" for RE teachers (and also everyone else!):

https://teachvine.org/understanding-veganism-as-a-worldview-for-re-teachers

Just how big should "The Moral Circle" be? Animals, AIs, fungi, plants, microbes, electrons, people who annoy us on the internet? Come explore with philosopher Jeff Sebo in his second appearance on the #Sentientism YouTube and Podcast.
Full links:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/e9tidf3TLk0
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sentientism/id1540408008
Spotify: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/OW1h1Dh5oUb

“Should we go extinct?”

And how would our answer change if we adopt anthropocentric, sentiocentric or ecocentric moral scopes?

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-books-in-animal-studies/id1543537151?i=1000714992146

Building a better future for all sentientkind through Sentientist Constitutionalism:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-animal-law-podcast/id1023904573?i=1000714798277

#SentientistPolitics #SentientistLaw

Religious Education teachers might be the most important people 🤩
They're helping kids to explore, understand and examine worldviews and to shape their own.
I've been lucky to present to hundreds of them about the #Sentientism worldview in recent months at conferences and network events. Here's a recent recording.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wmNHsGm3rFA
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-classroom-sentientism-230/id1540408008?i=1000715863637

Refreshing to see the "who matters?" question get asked. Instead of a human-centric answer just being unthinkingly assumed.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mystery-of-morality-alex-oconnor-richard/id267142101?i=1000714845606

"You can be a victim of oppression and also oppress others" - Seb Alex joins me on Sentientism ep:231. Full episode here and on podcast: https://youtu.be/79ZjQaqHdDw

Quick reminder that our first ever in real life #Sentientism meetup is happening this Sunday (27th July) in London. Come join us if you're in range - all welcome, non-human sentients included!
https://sentientism.info/our-first-irl-sentientism-meetup-plus-education-and-other-updates

What animal festivals can tell us about being human. "Forget the Camel" author and lawyer Elizabeth MeLampy joins me for episode 232 on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation here and on the podcast: https://youtu.be/GjmolvsBZ9g

Clip of Steven Rouk on Sentientism ep:233. Hope you enjoy our full conversation on YT or podcast as ever. Please share it if you like it!

There are so many bleak meme slippery slopes where you start with something that sounds reasonable & slip down to somewhere dark and nasty.

The Sentientism worldview is different. You get drawn in by something intriguing & important and end up somewhere awesome & good.

If we continue to frame this risk in such brutally anthropocentric terms, I don't hold out much hope for "humanity" in any case.
"... we will create AI systems whose goals are misaligned with human values and that the result will be a catastrophe for humanity..."
Here, there is serious moral concern for humans and for an emulated, digital "human". Yet there's little concern for the quintillions of actually existing, biological non-human sentients.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/phib.12380

Great to see The Humanist magazine featuring non-human sentient ethics and challenging human centricity.
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/the-humancentric-hypocrisy-of-the-denmark-zoo-controversy

"Is your suffering an illusion?" - Philosopher Keith Frankish joins me on Sentientism episode 234 on YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation there and here's a clip to tease you into watching, listening and sharing.

Such a pleasure to talk to Jordi Casamitjana about the Sentientism worldview as part of his new Vegan FTA series, "Walking with Vegans to Get Tea" https://youtu.be/2v8TPsO1E6g

Loved my last conversation with Sapna Ramnani about Sentientism https://youtu.be/KGuDrwk7edA

Looking forward to recording another today 🎤