A bit too spot on to be an April fools day joke! This is valid commentary. 

A super usable bird directory that was made with AI? This could actually be useful to wildlife researchers and hobbyists. I hope you keep it up somewhere and maybe even expand to other animals. Though I’ve got birds on my brain now!

Hi Simon! You can find out more about the latest development at Earth Species Project here and Project CETI here. There have been some recent breakthroughs with detecting and classifying animal bioacoustic signals through LLM-type models. 

I suspect that the majority of positive impact from vegan/vegetarian diets comes from the normalization of these practices in different communities, not from the economic effects. I don't have any data to back this up other than anecdotes of people telling me that I influenced them just by pointing out animal harm in their food choices... which I guess is different from me just being vegan, but I think me being vegan adds to the impact of my words.

Thanks for the mention, Kevin. I'm looking to gather people together who can build the in infrastructure necessary for what animal welfare initiatives could look like post-AGI transformation.

There is the meat eater problem where more animal lives would likely be lost by increasing the human population. It also seems much more cost effective per dollar to suffering spared to help animals and factory farming is spreading rapidly through Asia and Africa, making this a hingey time.

As economic growth in developing countries is generally correlated to increased meat consumption and the current trend in Africa (where Give Directly does cash transfers) is the rapid expansion of factory farming, how you factoring the welfare of these farmed animals into your decision-making?

Is there some sort of offset donation to animal/plant-based food charities you would consider making? Do you have a theory of change where economic growth in these regions will turn out to  somehow benefit animals downstream?

Given that there are vastly more animals than humans in this world, and that effective farmed animal welfare interventions can have an enormous positive impact, have you considered directing more of your philanthropic efforts towards effective animal charities? You can see the support for the cost-effectiveness of these interventions in the recent post "Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare"?

Hey if you want to learn more about the intersection of AI and animal welfare, I recommend you checking out the website https://www.aiforanimals.org/ and subscribing to the newsletter.