List of ideas for improving animal welfare in light of transformative AI

Cross-posted to the EA Forum . If transformative AI arrives soon, what interventions might improve animal welfare in the post-TAI world? I came up with a quick list of ideas and wrote some pros/cons for each. These ideas talk about animal welfare, but most of them could also be applied to the welfare of any nonhuman sentient being (e.g. digital minds). I started from the ideas I covered previously…