This is a contribution to AGI & Animals Debate Week (March 23–29, 2026). Co-written with Claude and ChatGPT.

Summary: It seems reasonable to think that there's a >20% chance[1] that TAI will bring us a ‘technological roadmap’[2] to clean meat within the next 15 years. A simple model: such a roadmap won’t solve the problem, but it will make ending factory farming much easier, i.e. the cost-effectiveness of factory farming interventions will increase – perhaps by a factor of 2-10x. The movement should therefore be investing instead of deploying, focusing on capacity-building, research, and literal investment of money. It may also be cost-effective to act now on some ways of removing barriers to the eventual adoption of clean meat (e.g. ensuring clean meat can be halal-certified at scale).

I will argue:

1. AI-driven R&D will likely deliver a ‘technological roadmap’ [1] to clean meat within the next 15 years or so.
2. However, this won’t end factory farming by itself – and some barriers can be worked on now.
3. More broadly, we should be anticipating a stark increase in cost-effectiveness, so we should move into an ‘investment mode’.

At the end, I’ll provide some specific ideas about useful work (e.g. working with [...]

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Outline:

(01:41) 1. AI-driven R&D will likely deliver a technological roadmap to clean meat

(03:38) 2. However, this wont end factory farming by itself - and some barriers can be worked on now

(05:49) 3. The movement should move into an investment mode

(07:42) 4. Some specific ideas

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