“Transformative AI and Animals: Animal Advocacy Under A Post-Work Society” by Kevin Xia 🔸

Thanks to Max Taylor, Irina Gueorguiev, Robert Praas, Albert Didriksen, Mark Rogers and Justis Mills (EA Forum) for feedback on this post. All mistakes are my own. This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Executive Summary

• This post explores how farmed animal advocacy might change in a post-work world enabled by transformative AI (TAI), mass automation, and universal basic income (UBI).  It is not a forecast, but a speculative exploration, intended to surface underexplored questions at the intersection of AI, economic systems, and animal advocacy.
• Implications for animal advocacy may include labor becoming abundant and funding becoming less of a bottleneck. However, much current advocacy work may be handled by AI in the process and effective strategies should be “human-scalable” and asymmetrical—leveraging advantages the industry can’t easily copy.
• Industrial Animal Agriculture may persist on various grounds that our movement needs to be ready to [...]

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Outline:

(00:30) Executive Summary

(01:39) Contextual Notes

(02:45) Introduction

(04:12) Post-Work Farmed Animal Advocacy Work

(07:38) Post-Work Industrial Animal Agriculture

(12:19) Open Questions for Farmed Animal Advocates

(16:23) Closing Thoughts

The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
May 25th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BXxEyZNYn7Fqkcsed/transformative-ai-and-animals-animal-advocacy-under-a-post

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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