A couplet different potential mechanisms could help farmed animals:
Solving cultivated meat or brainless animals
Creating better welfare technologies (e.g. solving all disease issues on current farms)
Generating enough societal wealth to make welfare improvements like lowering stocking density trivial
More abstractly, people generally care about welfare so it will be one of the things that an aligned AGI optimizes for. However, it wont be optimal for animals because AGI won’t be directly optimizing for welfare. For example, most people don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat, and we might still not want do things like beneficial vaccines or genetic edits.
A couplet different potential mechanisms could help farmed animals:
Solving cultivated meat or brainless animals
Creating better welfare technologies (e.g. solving all disease issues on current farms)
Generating enough societal wealth to make welfare improvements like lowering stocking density trivial
More abstractly, people generally care about welfare so it will be one of the things that an aligned AGI optimizes for. However, it wont be optimal for animals because AGI won’t be directly optimizing for welfare. For example, most people don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat, and we might still not want do things like beneficial vaccines or genetic edits.
Wild animals, less clear though!