{"id":86225,"date":"2026-09-07T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86225"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:28:41","slug":"ai-may-soon-allow-humans-to-talk-with-animals-but-some-say-it-could-violate-their-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ai-may-soon-allow-humans-to-talk-with-animals-but-some-say-it-could-violate-their-right-to-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"AI May Soon Allow Humans To Talk With Animals \u2014 But Some Say It Could Violate Their Right To Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/139904200.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A carrion crow perched on a tree branch, with a green background.\" width=\"242\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Advancements in AI\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/09\/tech\/artificial-intelligence-scientists-developing-tools-to-decode-what-your-dogs-barks-mean\/\">may soon allow humans\u00a0<\/a>to talk with animals, but some groups claim the research could be violating the animals\u2019 right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Machine learning models\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/20\/ai-can-understand-chickens-with-80-accuracy\/\">are paving the way\u00a0<\/a>to catalogue and even mimic the sounds animals make to communicate with each other, with researchers touting the technology as a way to better understand the world of animals.\u00a0But \u201cone risk that is currently not taken into account in research ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their vocalizations and movements,\u201d according to researchers in an article<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11245-026-10409-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00a0published in Springer Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): Advancements in AI\u00a0may soon allow humans\u00a0to talk with animals, but some groups claim the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86227,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86225\/revisions\/86227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}