Jeff Sebo
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University
Jeff Sebo is associate professor of environmental studies; affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy, and law; director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection; director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy; and co-director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. His research focuses on animal minds, ethics, and policy; AI minds, ethics, and policy; and global health and climate ethics and policy. He is the author of The Moral Circle (2025) and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2019) and Food, Animals, and the Environment (2019). He is also a board member at Minding Animals International; an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society; an advisor at Eleos AI; and a senior affiliate at the Institute for Law & AI. In 2024 Vox included him on its Future Perfect 50 list of ‘thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.’
Written by Jeff Sebo
essayAnimals and humans
Against human exceptionalism
In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are good arguments why that’s wrong
Jeff Sebo
essayBioethics
Don’t farm bugs
Insect farming bakes, boils and shreds animals by the trillion. It’s immoral, risky and won’t resolve the climate crisis
Jeff Sebo & Jason Schukraft
essayAnimals and humans
All we owe to animals
It is not enough to conserve species and ecosystems. We have an ethical duty to care for each individual animal on earth
Jeff Sebo