166: "An Aligned AGI would end factory farming" - Kat Woods - EA Charity Co-Founder - Sentientism

Kat is an effective altruist who co-founded Nonlinear (incubating artificial intelligence extinction risk non-profits), Charity Entrepreneurship (helping people start new, effective charities), and Charity Science Health (now Suvita - increasing immunisation uptake). She describes her main focus today as trying "to make transformative artificial intelligence go well instead of poorly." In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on YouTube⁠. We discuss: 00:00 Welcome 01:56 Kat Intro - "The biggest thing I care about is preventing suffering risks [#S-risks] the risk of causing astronomical amounts of suffering... We're already in one" - "We're a super-intelligent species compared to pigs and chickens and it's not going great... the worst thing that has ever happened in history as far as I can tell" - "Right now we're ju