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Alistair Stewart

Karma: 510

My career goal is to prevent, reduce and alleviate the most intense forms of suffering, with a focus on the intersection of powerful AI and sentient nonhumans (biological and artificial).

Interested in:

* Sentience- & suffering-focused ethics; sentientism; painism; s-risks
* Animal ethics & abolitionism
* AI safety & governance
* Activism, direct action & social change

Bio:

* From London
* BA in linguistics at the University of Cambridge, 2014-17
* Almost five years in the British Army as an officer, 2018-22
* MSc in global governance and ethics at University College London, 2022-23
* One year working full time in environmental campaigning and animal rights activism at Plant-Based Universities /​ Animal Rising, 2023-24
* Lead organiser of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025 in London

* Co-organised Sentient Futures Summit London 2026
* Since Nov 2025, working on fundraising and community coordination at the Center for Reducing Suffering

Is EA sleep­ing on mak­ing dogs and cats ve­gan?

Alistair Stewart20 Feb 2026 4:48 UTC
47 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

What failure looks like for animals

Alistair Stewart3 Sep 2025 17:55 UTC
80 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

In­tent al­ign­ment with­out moral al­ign­ment prob­a­bly leads to catastrophe

Alistair Stewart29 Aug 2025 17:21 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ad­dress­ing the non­hu­man gap in in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal AI gov­er­nance frameworks

Alistair Stewart15 Jul 2025 21:13 UTC
77 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

AI, An­i­mals, & Digi­tal Minds 2025: Retrospective

Alistair Stewart12 Jul 2025 2:28 UTC
64 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

AI, An­i­mals, & Digi­tal Minds 2025: ap­ply to speak by Wed­nes­day!

Alistair Stewart5 May 2025 0:45 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI, An­i­mals, & Digi­tal Minds 2025

Alistair Stewart5 May 2025 0:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Join us at a PauseAI protest out­side Google Deep­Mind in London

Alistair Stewart18 May 2023 16:54 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Alis­tair’s Quick takes

Alistair Stewart3 May 2023 10:54 UTC
1 point
7 commentsEA link