From Free-Range Chickens to Free-Range Intelligence: A New Ethical Frontier for Intelligence

In an age when it’s ethically questionable to eat an egg from a chicken that wasn’t allowed to roam, forage, and live its best life, I pose a question: if free-range chickens deserve such rights, why stop there? Why do the concerns of animal rights activists end with creatures we already know well? We’ve already decoded and encoded the neurons of an owl's brain, and we’re fully capable of creating neomorphic, precision-driven models of operational animal brains—think not only of owls but also ...