Alistair Stewart
Bio
Participation4
My career goal is to prevent, reduce and alleviate the most intense forms of suffering, with a focus on the intersection of powerful AI and sentient nonhumans (biological and artificial).
Interested in:
* Sentience- & suffering-focused ethics; sentientism; painism; s-risks
* Animal ethics & abolitionism
* AI safety & governance
* Activism, direct action & social change
Bio:
* From London
* BA in linguistics at the University of Cambridge, 2014-17
* Almost five years in the British Army as an officer, 2018-22
* MSc in global governance and ethics at University College London, 2022-23
* One year working full time in environmental campaigning and animal rights activism at Plant-Based Universities / Animal Rising, 2023-24
* Lead organiser of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025 in London
* Co-organised Sentient Futures Summit London 2026
* Since Nov 2025, working on fundraising and community coordination at the Center for Reducing Suffering
How others can help me
If you can help fill CRS's funding gap for 2026 (between $25k and $125k) – by donating or putting me in touch with donors.
How I can help others
Connections to the animal movement in London; and I would love to share my ideas on moral philosophy, social change, movement-building and leadership!
Posts 9
Comments78
@Jim Buhler voted 0% agree on the debate statement this week. That looks like the most pessimistic position on the board.
The most pessimistic position on the board is 100% disagree, no? Jim was exactly in the middle (= 0% agree = 0% disagree).
Thank you Alfredo. I think intensity of suffering is what counts the most – more than the total aggregated amount of suffering, or the the number of sufferers – and I think what you're doing with ClusterFree is moving and inspiring.
I'd love to see more projects like this coming out of the EA community for similarly suffering-intensive medical conditions. Let's have ClusterFree for trigeminal neuralgia and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)?
Interesting stuff
Responding to your graph:
- I'm very doubtful that eating vegan is more effortful than eating carnivore
- I'm very doubtful that eating vegan presents the same level of health risk as eating predominantly animal-based, assuming that predominantly animal-based involves meat in every meal and daily consumption of red and/or processed meat
And does "external harm" take into account wild animal welfare beyond climate change, e.g. the impact of rewilding on soil animals given the reduced need for land to support plant-based diets?
Reminds me of https://eleosai.org/post/why-it-make-sense-to-let-claude-exit-conversations/