The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

At the Sentient Futures Summit in San Francisco, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers discussed how AI could be leveraged to address animal suffering, with some attendees believing AGI could eventually make decisions that affect animal welfare. The movement, closely linked to effective altruism, focuses on large-scale solutions like cultivated meat rather than local actions, and raises questions about whether AI systems should be trained to value animal lives and sentient beings.