Cost-effectiveness model for AI alignment-to-animals vs. alignment-in-general

Cross-posted to the EA Forum . Last September, I wrote : There’s a (say) 80% chance that an aligned(-to-humans) AI will be good for animals, but that still leaves a 20% chance of a bad outcome. AI-for-animals receives much less than 20% as much funding as AI safety. Cost-effectiveness maybe scales with the inverse of the amount invested. Therefore, AI-for-animals interventions are more…