{"id":2,"date":"2026-02-15T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:38:33","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135481408 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">As AI systems increasingly promise to translate animal communications into human language, this project examines the profound ethical implications for biodiversity conservation, AI\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135481408 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">development<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135481408 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">\u00a0and more-than-human relations.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-3886\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW186787871 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186787871 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Our interdisciplinary research analyses AI animal translation technologies through translation studies\u2019 ethical and creative frameworks, revealing how these systems shape rather than simply convey meaning across species boundaries. Bringing together\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW186787871 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">researchers from translation studies, animal behaviour science, politics, literature, history, and digital studies, we will combine humanities and art-led methods with empirical research to critically investigate the future of interspecies communication in the context of AI. Working with marine conservation partners, we study whether these emerging technologies genuinely serve environmental justice goals, or risk reinforcing anthropocentric biases which undermine sustainable planetary relations.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW186787871 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI systems increasingly promise to translate animal communications into human language, this project examines the profound ethical implications for biodiversity conservation, AI\u00a0development\u00a0and more-than-human relations.\u00a0 Our interdisciplinary research analyses AI animal translation technologies through translation studies\u2019 ethical and creative frameworks, revealing how these systems shape rather than simply convey meaning across species boundaries. Bringing together\u00a0researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}