Many people in the animal welfare community treat AI as a powerful but normal technology, in the same category as the steam engine or the internet. They talk about how transformative AI will impact factory farming and what it will mean for animal advocacy.

Only two futures are plausible:

There is no plausible middle ground where we get "transformative AI", but factory farming persists.

Two theses:

Animal advocacy strategy needs to reckon with these.

This criticism is written from a place of solidarity—I want animal activists to succeed, which is why I want to work out our disagreements.[1]

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(01:34) AI makes the future weird

(07:01) AGI = intelligence

(11:02) If the future will be weird, what should animal activists do?

The original text contained 10 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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