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As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)

AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.

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