Leonie Bossert

University of Tübingen, University of Vienna

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Leonie Bossert is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and human-animal relations. Her work critically examines how emerging technologies reshape our moral relationships with non-human animals, focusing on the ethical implications of AI applications in conservation and animal welfare. In her highly cited 2024 paper "Dr. Doolittle uses AI: Ethical challenges of trying to speak whale" (14 citations), Bossert explores the profound ethical dilemmas arising from using AI to decode animal vocalizations, questioning whether such technological mediation truly serves animal interests or primarily human curiosity. Her equally influential work "From MilkingBots to RoboDolphins: How AI changes human-animal relations and enables alienation towards animals" (12 citations) investigates how disruptive technologies, from automated milking systems to robotic animal replicas, fundamentally alter human-animal interactions and risk deepening our alienation from living creatures. Bossert's scholarship uniquely bridges environmental ethics, animal studies, and technology assessment, offering critical frameworks for understanding how AI-mediated conservation practices may inadvertently undermine the very relationships they seek to protect. Her work has quickly gained recognition for its timely and provocative insights into one of the most pressing ethical questions of our age: how technology transforms our moral obligations to other species.