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Soenke Ziesche, PhD, is the author of Digital Minds 1.0: AI Welfare, Ethics, and Beyond. He has worked with the United Nations since 2000 in humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development roles, and now consults on AI and disaster information management. Soenke is a member of the UNESCO AI Ethics Experts without Border Network. His 2021 paper “AI Ethics and Value Alignment for Nonhuman Animals” examined AI risks to nonhuman animals, and he has co-authored work with previous Sentientism guest Roman Yampolskiy, including “‘Considerations on the AI Endgame’.”

Soenke has a sentiocentric moral scope conceptually and describes himself as “vegetarian… almost vegan.” He is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview.

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