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Some of the risks that come to mind: risks from inner alignment problems and from potential moral patienthood of AI systems.
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This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
The goals of this post are to:
1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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Hey! Consider posting to the All AGI safety questions welcome thread.
My own shortest answer [I'm not an expert] would be:
What would you do next with that oracle?
It's going to have to be something useful enough to prevent another company from creating an AGI and destroying the world, while also not destroying the world yourself by accident.
See also bullet 5 here.
My second separate answer would be "it would be pretty easy to turn that oracle AI into an AGI, so you better watch out from someone doing that, including someone stealing your code"