Pathfinder / funder / opportunities / Sentient Welfare Across Three Futures
A cross-posted essay by Matthew Dickens about how priorities for improving sentient welfare differ across three AI future scenarios: long AGI timelines, short timelines with alignment progress, and short timelines without alignment progress.
This EA Forum post from May 2026 scores 53/100 with perfect thesis fit (1.0) on AI-safety and full recency (1.0), but critically weak talent-density (0.0) and founder-credential (0.2) signals indicate this is a solo researcher's strategic framing piece rather than a fundable organization. The author Michael Dickens outlines a three-futures taxonomy for sentient-welfare work conditioned on ASI timelines and alignment progress, advocating portfolio allocation across pause advocacy, ASI-welfare alignment research, and traditional animal advocacy. No organization profile, team roster, funding ask, or institutional affiliation appears in the structured payload, disqualifying this as a philanthropic deal opportunity despite strong conceptual overlap with Funder's transition-risk and flourishing mandates.