Alistair Stewart

Trying to make transformative AI go less badly for sentient beings, regardless of species and substrate

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
• Almost five years in the British Army as an officer
• MSc in global governance and ethics at University College London
• One year working full time in environmental campaigning and animal rights activism at Plant-Based Universities / Animal Rising
• Now pivoting to the (future) impact of AI on biologically and artifically sentient beings
• Currently lead organiser of the AI, Animals, & Digital Minds conference in London in June 2025