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The impacts of AI on Animals: mine and other expert opinions
Recently, Animal Charity Evaluators interviewed me about how I use AI in my work, and how I think AI will affect the animal advocacy movement They also interviewed smarter people than me: We all independently came to the same conclusion: if the animal movement doesn’t get serious about using AI for animal liberation, we risk… Continue reading
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I tested the new ChatGPT agent on 13 use cases and it’s just ok
ChatGPT agent has now come to people on the paid £20 a month plan. The shameless YouTube hype merchants are obviously impressed (must be hard having your mind BLOWN literally every few days…), others are disappointed, and others have found some decent use cases. I thought I’d put it to the test myself! Here I… Continue reading
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The Deep Research Revolution: my talk at AI, Animals and Digital Minds London 2025
A few months ago I gave a talk at the AI, Animals and Digital Minds conference in London. It was on the exciting new possibilities that have been enabled by AI deep research tools (I’ve also written about them here). The talk had an interactive workshop component where I had people generating deep research reports… Continue reading
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An advanced guide to Deep Research tools Part 1 — Choosing the right question
Updated for Feb 2026 2025 was a year of staggering AI breakthroughs. Here I want to talk about one of them: AI Deep Research (DR) tools. If you’ve not heard of them, then stop reading this and go give them a try. You might just spit your drink out. If you’ve already spat your drink,… Continue reading
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Most academic AI tools provide little value to actual academics
Updated 4th May 2025 There has recently been an explosion of AI tools that claim to help academics accelerate scientific research. In general, I love this development. If AI can increase the rate of scientific discovery, that’s probably a good thing for humanity. But do these tools live up to the hype? Elicit, Consensus, SciSpace… Continue reading
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My current AI toolkit
Last updated 8th Jan 2026 Keeping up with AI tools these days is like trying to pick the winners of multiple races simultaneously. No one has time to keep up with the Tour de France and the Grand Prix and the Boston Marathon and whatever dumb horse race is the most famous. These days there… Continue reading
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Places to find animal advocacy research, aside from academic search engines
Last reviewed and updated: 10th July 2025 As a researcher in the animal advocacy space, Google Scholar is my bread and (vegan) butter. It’s how I find peer-reviewed articles that I can base my research on. But there is tons of great work that is not conducted in universities or published in journals. This is… Continue reading
Thomas Manandhar-Richardson, PhD 