Cats as aligned alien superintelligence: an AI-safety intuition check
birchlse · x · 2026-10-10
A wry AI-safety analogy: the history of the domestic cat is "a species's encounter with an alien superintelligence in which that superintelligence is quickly aligned and its forces used to secure superabundance." Reposter InVitroFuture uses it to argue that willful blindness about human-animal relations is a pitfall for AI safety intuitions — almost all land mammals (by mass) are farmed to be killed, nearly all in factory farming, and among exceptions like strays, millions per year are killed as unadoptable.
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