Amanda Askell on pigs vs dogs: the issue is we treat dogs too well
granawkins · x · 2026-09-27
Yacine MTB mused that pigs are a little too close to dogs to eat as much as we do — "they got souls." Anthropic co-founder Amanda Askell replied with a counterintuitive take: the issue isn't that we treat pigs badly, it's that we treat dogs too well. A light but quotable animal-ethics exchange between AI figures.
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