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Alistair Stewart

355 karmaJoined Seeking workWorking (6-15 years)London, UK
Interests:
Animal sentienceWild animal welfareAnimal EthicsEffective animal advocacyArtificial sentienceSentiencePain and sufferingPhilosophySuffering-focused ethicsS-riskAI safetyAI alignmentAI governanceArtificial intelligenceTransformative artificial intelligenceEthics of artificial intelligence

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Trying to make transformative AI go less badly for sentient beings, regardless of species and substrate

Interested in:

  • Sentience- & suffering-focused ethics; sentientism; painism; s-risks
  • Animal ethics & abolitionism
  • AI safety & governance
  • Activism, direct action & social change

Bio:

  • From London
  • BA in linguistics at the University of Cambridge
  • Almost five years in the British Army as an officer
  • MSc in global governance and ethics at University College London
  • One year working full time in environmental campaigning and animal rights activism at Plant-Based Universities / Animal Rising
  • Now pivoting to the (future) impact of AI on biologically and artifically sentient beings
  • Was lead organiser of the AI, Animals, & Digital Minds in London in May/June 2025

How others can help me

I'm now looking for opportunities in AI governance – specifically in generalist / programme manager / operations roles.

How I can help others

I can help with

1. Connections with the animal advocacy/activism community in London, with the AI safety advocacy community (especially/exclusively PauseAI)

2. Ideas on moral philosophy (sentience- and suffering-focused ethics, painism), social change (especially transformative social change) and leadership (partly from my education and experiences in the British Army)

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New donation opportunity: the Center for Wild Animal Welfare
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Awesome to see this, and I couldn't think of better people to be leading it than Richard and Ben!

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Part 3/4: Scrutinising Objections to (Traditional) Abolitionist Approaches
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I think this is well put together and extremely interesting Dhruv. I set it as the reading for a Revolutionists' Night a couple of weeks ago, which I didn't end up attending as I was sick, but I'll try to catch up on what was discussed and let you know when we next cross paths!

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AI and Animal Welfare: A Policy Case Study from Aotearoa New Zealand Policy
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Thanks for writing this up Karen – interesting and important.

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Emerging evidence on treating cluster headaches with DMT
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Given the intensity of the suffering caused by cluster headaches and humans' welfare range (i.e. our capacity for suffering), I think this is extremely important work – thank you.

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AGI × Animals Wargame
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A sobering and important read. Thanks to Constance and the team at Sentient Futures for running it!

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Metacrisis as a Framework for AI Governance
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As someone new to metacrisis thinking I enjoyed this a lot Jonah, thanks!

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What failure looks like for animals
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Thank you! What do you mean by the corps by the way?

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What failure looks like for animals
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Indeed. I'm personally sympathetic to this kind of view (my ethics are heavily suffering-focused), but we wanted to make this piece pluralistic, and specifically able to accommodate the intuitions of those who think extinction of (one or more species of) wild animals would be very bad.

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AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: Retrospective
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Thank you! And thanks for all your contributions over the weekend 🤝 

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