If animals continue to exist in a post-AGI world, animal suffering will not persist
Biology doesn’t change just because AGI is introduced as a new technology. While there are certainly advances that could reduce pain and suffering (e.g. lab grown meat) it seems implausible to me that animal suffering just ceases.
Besides, there are going to be people who insist on raising animals the conventional way who may be unconcerned with the suffering caused by factory farming, etc.
The kind of tech one expects after AGI has already been develop for some time (it says persist after all) can absolutely change biology, which is what I think the question is getting at.
For instance stick all the animals in utopian carefully AI managed environments that maximize their well being and then replace them with cybernetic faux animals that appear perfectly convincing but are actually just AI actors pretending to be animals (and who either can’t suffer themselves or greatly enjoy their acting role).
Biology doesn’t change just because AGI is introduced as a new technology. While there are certainly advances that could reduce pain and suffering (e.g. lab grown meat) it seems implausible to me that animal suffering just ceases.
Besides, there are going to be people who insist on raising animals the conventional way who may be unconcerned with the suffering caused by factory farming, etc.
The kind of tech one expects after AGI has already been develop for some time (it says persist after all) can absolutely change biology, which is what I think the question is getting at.
For instance stick all the animals in utopian carefully AI managed environments that maximize their well being and then replace them with cybernetic faux animals that appear perfectly convincing but are actually just AI actors pretending to be animals (and who either can’t suffer themselves or greatly enjoy their acting role).