Thanks for this, it’s a hugely valuable exploration and an invitation to the community to think beyond the short-term horizon. This mindset feels vital for anyone working at the intersection of AI, economic change and animal welfare.
I feel EA is generally good at identifying neglected problems within existing systems, but there’s a whole category of neglectedness that emerges during transitions—where familiar advocacy approaches might lose traction, where new decision-makers enter the picture, where the very metrics of moral progress could shift. I find this space fascinating and full of opportunity (and risk), as it seems do you!
The deep dives you’ve shared on AI and animal advocacy illustrate this well. It shows how even our most established interventions (corporate campaigns, research, network building) could be fundamentally transformed. But what’s particularly interesting is how these AI-driven changes are happening within our current economic paradigm. When we layer on the possibility of broader economic transitions the complexity multiplies.
We need to understand how values get embedded when paradigms shift. It’s a different kind of tractability analysis: instead of asking “how do we solve this problem now?” we’re asking “how do we ensure this problem remains solvable later?” or even better “how do we design out this problem during the shift?”
Thanks for this, it’s a hugely valuable exploration and an invitation to the community to think beyond the short-term horizon. This mindset feels vital for anyone working at the intersection of AI, economic change and animal welfare.
I feel EA is generally good at identifying neglected problems within existing systems, but there’s a whole category of neglectedness that emerges during transitions—where familiar advocacy approaches might lose traction, where new decision-makers enter the picture, where the very metrics of moral progress could shift. I find this space fascinating and full of opportunity (and risk), as it seems do you!
The deep dives you’ve shared on AI and animal advocacy illustrate this well. It shows how even our most established interventions (corporate campaigns, research, network building) could be fundamentally transformed. But what’s particularly interesting is how these AI-driven changes are happening within our current economic paradigm. When we layer on the possibility of broader economic transitions the complexity multiplies.
We need to understand how values get embedded when paradigms shift. It’s a different kind of tractability analysis: instead of asking “how do we solve this problem now?” we’re asking “how do we ensure this problem remains solvable later?” or even better “how do we design out this problem during the shift?”
Thanks again for this thoughtful piece.