If farmed animals matter more, the upside could be that AGI enables us to substitute farmed animals completely (cultivated meat, etc.).
Nitpick, but it seems unfair to consider this an upside rather than the mere absence of a downside, since the relevant counterfactual scenario, in expectation (if no AI safety work) is a misaligned AI that takes over and probably ends animal farming as it kills or disempowers humans.
AI safety cannot take the credit for a potential future reduction or end of farmed animal suffering if it preserves humanity, without which animal farming would not exist to begin with.
Nitpick, but it seems unfair to consider this an upside rather than the mere absence of a downside, since the relevant counterfactual scenario, in expectation (if no AI safety work) is a misaligned AI that takes over and probably ends animal farming as it kills or disempowers humans.
AI safety cannot take the credit for a potential future reduction or end of farmed animal suffering if it preserves humanity, without which animal farming would not exist to begin with.