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...
Hello! I'm Justin Portela. I got hired by GWWC to make YouTube videos after AI in Context did such a kickass job.
My channel is using that same cinematic, high-production value beauty to talk about everything in the EA universe that isn't AI.
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I used AI to fix transcription errors, rerrarange the ideas, and suggest tweaks to the title and some sentences.
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...
Opportunity for creatives in EA:
Arts for the Future Festival (September 13-29) is an artist-led, global hybrid festival, online and in-person in New York, leading up to and beyond the UN Summit of the Future. It's a great chance to show your work and connect with other artists.
How you can participate:
I'm a big fan of long-term art projects and it would be exciting to see artworks reflecting on long-term thinking, care for future generations, etc. The festival is hosted by Lisa Russell, an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker with a passion for promoting artist representation in global policymaking spaces.