Jonathan BirchJonathan Birch is a professor of philosophy at the LSE and principal investigator on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project, a European Union-funded project aiming to develop better methods for studying the feelings of animals and new ways of usng the science of animal minds to improve animal welfare policies and laws. In 2021, he led a review for the UK government that shaped the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. In 2022-23, he was part of a working group that investigated the question of sentience in AI. Read More Read Less