Request for Proposals for AI x Animals
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Kevin Xia 🔸·Max Taylor
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Posted on the EA Forum, this RFP targets researchers interested in how AI intersects with animal welfare—a niche but growing area of concern within effective altruism and AI governance communities.
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A call for research proposals exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and animal welfare, seeking projects that use AI to improve conditions for animals or that address how AI development affects animals. The post outlines funding opportunities and desired research directions in this emerging area.
Key Points
- •Solicits proposals at the intersection of AI and animal welfare, an underexplored area within EA and AI safety communities
- •Likely covers using AI tools to monitor, assess, or improve animal welfare outcomes at scale
- •Addresses potential negative impacts of AI development and deployment on animals (e.g., increased factory farming, wildlife disruption)
- •Represents an effort to direct EA-aligned funding toward neglected animal-AI research questions
- •Highlights synergies between AI capabilities research and applied animal welfare interventions
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# Request for Proposals for AI x Animals
By Kevin Xia 🔸, Max Taylor
Published: 2026-01-29
TL;DR
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* We are launching a pooled fund for projects at the AIxAnimals intersection.
* We are open to a broad set of ideas, but prioritize those in the following categories:
* Empowering Animal Advocates
* Strategic Field-building and Coordination
* Actionable Research and Strategic Foresight
* Apply [here](https://dashboard.granti.org/invitations/14136abd6bf2b651f4286a65782aa0/show) by April 30th.
Introduction
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Over the next decade, AI will increasingly shape how we produce food, manage ecosystems, and interact with animals, presenting some of the most significant risks and opportunities the animal advocacy movement has faced. For example, if AI-enabled precision livestock farming (PLF) takes off, it could alter the daily experience of billions or even trillions of animals every year. Animal advocacy efforts could be supercharged or face new bottlenecks. New AI tools could rapidly accelerate alternative protein or animal welfare research, or AI could be used to entrench factory farming, unblock bottlenecks for scaling the farming of fishes or insects, and create new forms of exploitation we can't yet foresee.
Despite these high stakes, there is currently very little work being done at the intersection of AI and animal advocacy. To fill this gap, a group of funders is launching a targeted, experimental funding initiative. Our goal is to equip the animal advocacy movement with the skills, tools, and strategic foresight needed to navigate this new reality, helping to secure transformative benefits and avert large-scale harms before they become irreversible.
Our Approach: A Focused, Experimental Fund
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We recognize that this field is nascent and that the most effective long-term interventions are still uncertain. Many funders, including ourselves, feel we are still learning.
Therefore, this RFP is not a broad call for all ideas, but rather a focused effort to make smart investments in specific projects that can build our movement’s capacity to engage with AI effectively. We are prioritizing projects that provide clear learning value, equip advocates with practical skills, and build the collaborative infrastructure we need to succeed.
This will be managed as a pooled fund, with a small team of grant managers with relevant expertise evaluating proposals to ensure an efficient and focused process.
If you want to contribute to the pooled fund, please email [maxrtaylor99@gmail.com](mailto:maxrtaylor99@gmail.com) or [kevintxxia@gmail.com](mailto:kevintxxia@gmail.com). Further details below. Please note that Max and Kevin are working on this project in a personal capacity, and it is separate from their work at ACE and Hive.
Priority Categories
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We invite concise, impact-oriented proposals with a clear strategy for providing learning value to the broader an
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