The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

What if we listened to the complex clicks of whales and could
understand their meanings? What would we hear and how might we
respond? More-Than-Human (MOTH) Life Collective founder César
Rodríguez-Garavito, artist and technologist James Bridle, and
author Rebecca Giggs come together in this conversation with
Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee to explore the
ethical, legal, and relational implications of a new project using
AI machine learning to translate the speech of sperm whales.
Contemplating the human-centric linking of language with
intelligence, the moral complexities of collecting and using these
translations, and what it might mean to have an ear for
“whale-ish,” they discuss whether a shared language is even needed
to find a depth of kinship with whales. Read the transcript. 
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