Thanks for writing this; your resource guide is especially helpful!
I agree that we should be thinking about opportunities/harms for animals from current/near-term AI (e.g. machine vision to manage human-wildlife interactions) and from AGI/superintelligence. I’m joining the Slack channel :)
A minor quibble: I agree cultural factors might hold plant-based alternatives back even after reaching taste, texture and price parity, but I am not convinced we currently have alternatives at parity. This Metaculus question resolved ‘annulled’ and while this paper (which found no significant diff in ranking between a plant-based burger and a beef burger) is promising, it would be great to see a replication, more testing for taste and texture specifically, and widespread sales at the same price/cheaper than meat burgers – as well as all those bars cleared again by other plant-based alternatives. I look forward to seeing how AI helps alternative proteins develop.
Thanks for writing this; your resource guide is especially helpful!
I agree that we should be thinking about opportunities/harms for animals from current/near-term AI (e.g. machine vision to manage human-wildlife interactions) and from AGI/superintelligence. I’m joining the Slack channel :)
A minor quibble: I agree cultural factors might hold plant-based alternatives back even after reaching taste, texture and price parity, but I am not convinced we currently have alternatives at parity. This Metaculus question resolved ‘annulled’ and while this paper (which found no significant diff in ranking between a plant-based burger and a beef burger) is promising, it would be great to see a replication, more testing for taste and texture specifically, and widespread sales at the same price/cheaper than meat burgers – as well as all those bars cleared again by other plant-based alternatives. I look forward to seeing how AI helps alternative proteins develop.
(in a personal capacity)