In September 2025 in Warsaw prior to CARE, 19 animal movement leaders came together to participate in the first ever AGI and animal welfare wargame.

TLDR: Great-power moves and food-security shocks repeatedly overrode animal welfare efforts; standard campaigning tactics like mass mobilization struggled under political crackdowns and were overshadowed by government's concerns about public unrest in the face of war risks.

Executive Summary

What this was

A strategic tabletop exercise designed to test whether current animal-advocacy theories of change held under fast AI progression and geopolitical stress. Participants were selected based on their potential strategic influence on the direction of the animal movement and assigned roles according to their pre-existing domain expertise which ranged from governments, frontier AI labs, animal agriculture companies, alternative-protein companies, animal advocates, funders, and media. They were then given an [amateurly] forecasted starting scenario and asked to stay in character while interacting and negotiating with one another over 4 rounds and 3 hours.

This exercise was adapted from the AI-2027 tabletop exercise, which we ran once exactly “as is” to understand the game mechanics. We then ran it again with a newly written animal welfare scenario for Compassionate [...]

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Outline:

(00:38) Executive Summary

(00:42) What this was

(01:49) Why we ran it

(02:45) Contents of this write up

(03:01) The Game

(03:04) Scenario in brief

(03:36) Game Highlights

(08:12) Takeaways

(08:16) Participant reflections

(09:41) Observed themes

(11:12) Implications for the movement

(12:05) Limitations

(12:40) Appendix

(12:43) Reference materials

(14:03) Acknowledgements

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