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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.
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1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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I think this has an article here. It seems pretty mainstream: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3661434/remote-bricking-of-ukrainian-tractors-raises-agriculture-security-concerns.html
Note the Ukraine element/symbols.
So I guess tractors are one part of the "right to repair" movement. For tractors, I think there's some aspect of it being associated with the halo and respect for farmers in the US, as opposed to food supply security.
My, uh, not confident guess, is that it seems implausible that this is a structural problem that affects food supply (like, in the sense that there is some structural pressure/absorbing state where the worlds tractors tend to have software that is vulnerable to being locked out.)
It would be great to know if the above is wrong, especially if there actually is some kind of structural thing about electronics that tend to brick products.
Thank you very much!