Alistair Stewart

Hi! The key thing I'm trying to do with my career is to influence how powerful AI (TAI/AGI/ASI) goes, so that it goes less badly for sentient nonhumans regardless of their species and substrate (i.e. including animals and artificially sentient beings).

I'm currently working part-time at the Center for Reducing Suffering as Development & Partnerships Manager. Previously:

• Lead organiser of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025 (London) in May/June 2025 with Sentient Futures (then AI for Animals)
• Worked full-time in animal activism and environmental campaigning with Plant-Based Universities / Animal Rising
• MSc in global governance & ethics at University College London (dissertation on open rescue, a form of animal rights activism)
• Served as an officer in the British Army for almost five years

I have particular interests in:

• Sentience- & suffering-focused ethics; sentientism; painism; s-risks
• Community-building (especially around suffering-focused ethics, and the intersection of AI and nonhumans)
• Animal ethics, direct action, social change & abolitionism
• AI governance

I've written on the 'nonhuman gap' in AI governance, a pretty spectulative piece exploring how futures with powerful AI might go badly, and a couple of other things here.

Must-haves:

• Integrity (e.g. admitting you haven't done the work for this week)
• Basic organisation
• Turning up to our scheduled meetings
• Alignment with trying to make powerful AI go less badly for sentient nonhumans
• Willingness to disagree with me
• Ability to express needs

Nice-to-haves:

• Somewhat developed thoughts on my interests (see above)

Probably I can help most with understanding your intent, shaping the direction of the project, accountability, facilitating connections, doing some editing of writing; I cannot helping with e.g. coding due to lack of technical knowledge