Please join us for the next workshop in a series of online workshops organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law:

Rabbits and Robots: Debating the Rights of Animals and Artificial Intelligences

This workshop brings into conversation leading international experts on the rights of non-human animals and the rights of robots and artificial intelligences. Its aim is to facilitate critical discussion of the questions that arise in these fast-growing fields, to build bridges between scholars, and to allow an international audience to engage in a discussion with these scholars.

Registration for the workshop is free and open to all.

The event will take place on Zoom and all who register will be sent a Zoom invitation before the event.

Visit our website for more information.

Programme

2.00-2.15pm (BST)

Introduction

Raffael Fasel (Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law)

2.15-3.00pm

Keynote address: Is it acceptable to kick a robot dog? A relational approach to moral standing

Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna)

3.00-3.30pm

Rights for nonhumans in the anthropocene: towards a unified framework

Joshua Gellers (University of North Florida)

3.30-3.45pm

Break

3.45-4.15pm

The new breed: what our history with animals reveals about robot rights

Kate Darling (MIT)

4.15-4.45pm

Five theses on similarities and dissimilarities of animal and AI rights

Tomasz Pietrzykowski (University of Silesia)

4.45-6.00pm

Panel discussion and Q&A