Transdisciplinary Initiatives to Collaborate on the Responsible Use of AI for Animal Welfare

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence-based methods have the potential to expand human capacities to measure and monitor animal welfare indicators more accurately and continuously. However, developing or adapting these methods requires the expertise of relatively unrelated academic fields, such as veterinary medicine and computing sciences. Therefore, collaborative structures are needed that offer perspectives beyond individual research projects. One example of such initiatives is the AI & Animal Welfare Lab at Utrecht University, which we present in this paper.