Jeff Sebo, director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University and author of The Moral Circle and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, will discuss current debates about the sentience and moral status of nonhumans. Can insects experience happiness and suffering? Can AI systems have desires and preferences? How should we treat them when we feel unsure, and what follows for our practices, policies, and priorities?

This event is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Open Academy at CMC.