I would be most excited about projects 3c and 4a, since I think we could draw the strongest conclusions from them by directly asking about artificial sentience, not-so-intelligent artificial sentience (more like nonhuman animals) in particular and more neglected animals (wild animals, invertebrates) and possibly infer causation.
For 3c specifically, I’d want to see how people’s attitudes towards artificial sentience and neglected animals change in response to major animal welfare events, e.g. animal advocacy/welfare media attention in general, or specifically ballot initiatives, new legislation, corporate commitments, undercover investigations, etc.. I think we’d need to collect a lot of data to do this, though.
Great post, thanks for writing this!
I would be most excited about projects 3c and 4a, since I think we could draw the strongest conclusions from them by directly asking about artificial sentience, not-so-intelligent artificial sentience (more like nonhuman animals) in particular and more neglected animals (wild animals, invertebrates) and possibly infer causation.
For 3c specifically, I’d want to see how people’s attitudes towards artificial sentience and neglected animals change in response to major animal welfare events, e.g. animal advocacy/welfare media attention in general, or specifically ballot initiatives, new legislation, corporate commitments, undercover investigations, etc.. I think we’d need to collect a lot of data to do this, though.
This also might be relevant, for moral circle expansion towards farmed animals from humans, although I not sure we can assume causality rather than just a common cause (e.g. liberal/progressive values): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/26/who-supports-animal-rights-heres-what-we-found/