Yes, for the next six months (as an extension of our original three-month test). We don't have any active plans to change the system, but it's possible that we might for some of those six months. Feedback has been highly positive so far, but we'd still like to collect more data on how the prize influences readership and authorship.
(The February prize will be announced around the end of this month; our process was a bit delayed from the usual timeline, since we spent the first two weeks of March collecting feedback and discussing our options.)
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...
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...
Yes, for the next six months (as an extension of our original three-month test). We don't have any active plans to change the system, but it's possible that we might for some of those six months. Feedback has been highly positive so far, but we'd still like to collect more data on how the prize influences readership and authorship.
(The February prize will be announced around the end of this month; our process was a bit delayed from the usual timeline, since we spent the first two weeks of March collecting feedback and discussing our options.)
Thanks, Aaron.