Totally agree on your first point. I guess you could divide positive use cases up into a few different categories:
In some cases, like alt proteins, there are already people/companies intentionally trying to create less exploitative systems with reasonable chance of success, and AI will help them achieve that.
In others, like most alternatives to animal testing methods or many forms of Precision Livestock Farming, AI enables methods that are cheaper, more effective, etc., so those methods will probably end up getting adopted and incidentally helping animals in the process.
But for many other areas, the positive use cases rely on getting governments, public, industry etc. to care about animals. If we think that we’re likely to see transformative AI fairly soon, it probably makes sense to specifically target those kind of MCE efforts at the people who will have most say over AI systems, like governments and AI companies. I’ve explored that a bit in another post.
On your second point: thanks, that’s a good point and I think your suggestion is probably more accurate!
Hey Benny, thanks for the thoughts!
Totally agree on your first point. I guess you could divide positive use cases up into a few different categories:
In some cases, like alt proteins, there are already people/companies intentionally trying to create less exploitative systems with reasonable chance of success, and AI will help them achieve that.
In others, like most alternatives to animal testing methods or many forms of Precision Livestock Farming, AI enables methods that are cheaper, more effective, etc., so those methods will probably end up getting adopted and incidentally helping animals in the process.
But for many other areas, the positive use cases rely on getting governments, public, industry etc. to care about animals. If we think that we’re likely to see transformative AI fairly soon, it probably makes sense to specifically target those kind of MCE efforts at the people who will have most say over AI systems, like governments and AI companies. I’ve explored that a bit in another post.
On your second point: thanks, that’s a good point and I think your suggestion is probably more accurate!