[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  TheMacroSift (RC) [@themacrosift](/creator/twitter/themacrosift) on x 9345 followers Created: 2025-07-16 17:20:46 UTC 🔎 New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets If your cat's sulking, your dog's whining or your rabbit's doing that strange thing with its paws again, you will recognize that familiar pang of guilt shared by most other pet owners. But this may be about change - thanks to the establishment of the first scientific institution dedicated to empirically investigating the consciousness of animals. Based in London, the Jeremy Coller Center for Animal Sentience will begin its work on XX September, researching non-human animals, including those as evolutionarily distant from us as insects, crabs and cuttlefish. Harnessing a wide range of interdisciplinary global expertise, the center's work will span neuroscience, philosophy, veterinary science, law, evolutionary biology, comparative psychology, behavioral science, computer science, economics and artificial intelligence. "We like our pets to display human characteristics and with the advent of Al, the ways in which your pet will be able to speak to you is going to be taken to a whole new level," said Prof Jonathan Birch, the inaugural director of the center. —The Guardian  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [paws](/topic/paws) [pets](/topic/pets) [coins ai](/topic/coins-ai) [Post Link](https://x.com/themacrosift/status/1945534083804856443)
[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]
TheMacroSift (RC) @themacrosift on x 9345 followers
Created: 2025-07-16 17:20:46 UTC
🔎 New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets
If your cat's sulking, your dog's whining or your rabbit's doing that strange thing with its paws again, you will recognize that familiar pang of guilt shared by most other pet owners.
But this may be about change - thanks to the establishment of the first scientific institution dedicated to empirically investigating the consciousness of animals.
Based in London, the Jeremy Coller Center for Animal Sentience will begin its work on XX September, researching non-human animals, including those as evolutionarily distant from us as insects, crabs and cuttlefish.
Harnessing a wide range of interdisciplinary global expertise, the center's work will span neuroscience, philosophy, veterinary science, law, evolutionary biology, comparative psychology, behavioral science, computer science, economics and artificial intelligence.
"We like our pets to display human characteristics and with the advent of Al, the ways in which your pet will be able to speak to you is going to be taken to a whole new level," said Prof Jonathan Birch, the inaugural director of the center. —The Guardian
XXX engagements
