Organizations Filed Purposes:
Earth Species is a non-profit dedicated to translating non-human languages, rapidly shifting how we steward the Earth.In a moment of need, we are extending the power of AI translation past human language. Its an Apollo-like mission to unite the imagination of humanityand ignite our collective action.Based in Berkeley, California, we are (1) building an open-source toolkit for translating languages without dictionaries or Rosetta Stones, extending recent research from fields like unsupervised machine translation; and (2) creating an open-source platform of data for research, collaboration, and public wonder.With another speciess language as our path to changing human identity, we are working with the world's pre-eminent technologists, animal researchers, scientists, and movement builders to inspire our species. Collaborating with some of the worlds most impactful storytellers we are turning this journey of exploration and empathy into a movement that everyone can join.
The Earth Species Project spent 2019 in pursuit of collecting animal behavior and communication data sets in collaboration with other organizations to meet the goals of (i) decoding animal communications and language, (ii) preserving behavioral biodiversity before it disappears and (iii) fueling further research and development in the biological sciences. The Earth Species Project has developed research partners, including: University of Oxford, Alaska Whale Foundation, The Rockefeller University, Harvard University, University of Michigan, Berkeley, UC Davis, Project CETI, Simons Institute, ETI Institute, Internet Archive, Cornell University, Imperial College London, Woods Hole Oceanographic, University of Zurich, Warwick, MBARI, to name a few.Simultaneously, we hired our first AI Research Engineer and began developing our first AI research, all open-source and available on Github.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Aza Raskin | President | 40 | $15,272 |
| Britt Selvitelle | Treasurer | 40 | $13,542 |
| Kay Butterfield | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Merlin Van Lawick | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Brewster Kahle | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Wendy Hanamura | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Kathy Chan | Director | 2 | $0 |
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