“AGI × Animals Wargame” by Sentient Futures (formerly AI for Animals), Constance Li

In September 2025 in Warsaw prior to CARE, 19 animal movement leaders came together to participate in the first ever AGI and animal welfare wargame. It was a strategic tabletop exercise designed to test whether current animal-advocacy theories of change held under fast AI progression and geopolitical stress. Participants were selected based on their potential strategic influence on the direction of the animal movement and assigned roles according to their pre-existing domain expertise which ranged from governments, frontier AI labs, animal agriculture companies, alternative-protein companies, animal advocates, funders, and media. They were then given an [amateurly] forecasted starting scenario and asked to stay in character while interacting and negotiating with one another over 4 rounds and 3 hours. Participants of AGIxAnimals gathered in Warsaw This exercise was adapted from the AI-2027 tabletop exercise, which we ran once exactly “as is” to understand the game mechanics. We then ran [...] ---Outline:(01:27) Why we ran it(02:22) What is in this write up(02:56) Scenario in brief(03:27) Game Highlights(09:07) Participant Reflections(10:31) Take-Home Messages(13:00) Reference materials(14:19) Acknowledgements--- First published: October 8th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/k3inf3qkRpWurqE5q/agi-animals-wargame --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.