Episode
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Dwarkesh Podcast · Aug 7, 2025 · 1 h 08 min
A deep dive with Lewis Bollard, who leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for Farmed Animal Welfare , on the surprising economics of the meat industry. Why is factory farming so efficient? How can we make the lives of the 23+ billion animals living on factory farms more bearable? How far off are the moonshots (e.g., brainless chickens, cultivated meats, etc.) to end this mass suffering? And why…