From Blind Spot to Stakeholder: Animals in Technology Ethics and Responsible Innovation

Technologies increasingly shape animals’ lives, yet animal interests are still largely marginal in mainstream technology ethics and in frameworks of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This paper argues that this neglect constitutes a serious moral blind spot that sits in tension with these fields’ own ethical aspirations. Debates about the ethical acceptability and societal desirability of technologies often take human interests as the normative baseline. This anthropocentrism runs deep

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ethics.ai (11 August 2026), “From Blind Spot to Stakeholder: Animals in Technology Ethics and Responsible Innovation,” evidence record 18475, https://ethics.ai/record/18475 (originally published by Science and Engineering Ethics).

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