I agree there is the opposite danger as well, and perhaps we have yet to known those dangers and new conflict of interests between humans and animals... 
I assume with ASI, the risk of possible future digital minds being in a conflict of interests with humans is bigger than for animals. 

Thanks Anthony! Very interesting stuff. I wrote some thought on the intersection of Buddhism and EA here Effective Self-Help - A guide to improving your subjective wellbeing but your referring to some other questions. I dont think I am deep enought in self observation to understand and have an insight on no-self or no-being, but I think the Buddhist teaching can bring people to a more sentient centric, experience centric vision and deep understanding. it is also pushing me in that direction 

I read part of the zen and the art of saving the planet but not the others you mentioned 

Did you hear about this? 

https://www.monasticacademy.org/ai-fellowship

And this

https://buddhismforai.sutra.co/space/cbodvy/register

Thanks Chris, yes please share more thoughts on that, it sounds very relevant and important. 

I agree, it is crucial that the animal advocacy movement learn research and prepare a wise and informed strategy for pre AGI and post AGI times.

Yes I completely agree, Moral alignment and controllability/safety alignment are very interconnected and one effects the other

I think this is exactly why we need research building a vision of how a sentient centric ASI - that works with humanity to gradually improve lives for everyone - behaves. As humanity gets stronger and more able to control the outside environment and inside body and mind, we may see less conflict of interests between animals and humans, and this can creates a monumental chance to take a stewardship role in relation to non-humans. 

If humans agree they want an AI that cares about everyone who feels, or at least that is what we are striving  for, than classical alignment is aligned with a sentient centric AI. 

In a world with much more abundance and less scarcity, less conflict of interests between humans and non humans, I suspect this view to be very popular, and I think it is already popular to an extent. 

And human deeds are very different from human states values. 

I think research to define exactly what is a sentient centric AI, is one of the first important things to do, and it's possible 

Animal Welfare is so neglected... it is just mind-blowing. 

Thanks Laila! I agree that mediation should not be a guide how to act to 'save others'. But it should, optimally, create the willingness, the wanting, some vision maybe even, to act for others, including, and maybe especially, at the macro effective altruism level, where each one does what he thinks is best to reduce suffering in the world. and this, at the macro level, is missing, in my view.