“How should we adapt animal advocacy to near-term AGI?” by Max Taylor

Many thanks to Constance Li, Rachel Mason, Ronen Bar, Sam Tucker-Davis, and Yip Fai Tse for providing valuable feedback. This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Artificial General Intelligence (basically, ‘AI that is as good as, or better than, humans at most intellectual tasks’) seems increasingly likely to be developed in the next 5-10 years. As others have written, this has major implications for EA priorities, including animal advocacy, but it's hard to know how this should shape our strategy. This post sets out a few starting points and I’m really interested in hearing others’ ideas, even if they’re very uncertain and half-baked. Is AGI coming in the next 5-10 years? This is very well covered elsewhere but basically it looks increasingly likely, e.g.: The Metaculus and Manifold forecasting platforms predict we’ll see AGI in 2030 and 2031, respectively. The heads of Anthropic and OpenAI think [...] ---Outline:(00:53) Is AGI coming in the next 5-10 years?(02:08) What could AGI mean for animals?(09:00) What should we do about it?(09:04) Reflect AGI in our goal as a movement(09:40) Act now, rather than wait until it's too late(10:48) Support the work that best fulfils our AGI-aligned goals(15:10) Conclusion--- First published: March 27th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EGAJgkBQqLkmRu3hr/how-should-we-adapt-animal-advocacy-to-near-term-agi --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.