Toni Sims

Biographic Data

ID5969060
NAMEToni Sims
GIVEN NAMESToni
FAMILY NAMESims
SIGNATURESIMS T
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0009-0002-7805-0254
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Ethical Oversight for Insect Research

    Open AccessToni Sims, Jeff SeboARTICLEZoophilologica2025

    In this article, we present a high-level argument for ethical oversight for insect research. There is a realistic possibility that insects are sentient, and when there is a realistic possibility that an animal is sentient, we have a responsibility to consider welfare risks for them when making decisions that affect them. We also present high-level recommendations for how to achieve this goal. In addition to taking the issue seriously in general, …

  • Is there a tension between AI safety and AI welfare

    Open AccessRobert Long, Jeff Sebo et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2025References: 100

    The field of AI safety considers whether and how AI development can be safe and beneficial for humans and other animals, and the field of AI welfare considers whether and how AI development can be safe and beneficial for AI systems. There is a prima facie tension between these projects, since some measures in AI safety, if deployed against humans and other animals, would raise questions about the ethics of constraint, deception, surveillance, alt…