Animal Welfare
How many factory farms are there in the United States?
25,000
How many countries meaningfully invest in frontier AI development today?
5
Roughly what percent of humanity could die in a full-scale nuclear war scenario?
50-70%
Roughly how many children under 5 die each year globally?
5 million
How long does it take shrimp to suffocate with current methods?
20 minutes
About how many frontier AI models existed globally as of the early 2020s?
10
How many BSL-4 labs (highest biosecurity level) exist globally?
60
What percentage of the global population lives in extreme poverty (under ~$2.15/day)?
9%
Roughly how many chickens are killed daily for meat in the U.S.?
25 million
What probability have some AI researchers assigned to existential catastrophe from AI this century?
5-10%
How many nuclear warheads exist globally today?
12,000
About how much does it cost (USD) to save a life via top global health charities?
$5,000
How many days does the average chicken live before slaughter in a factory farming environment?
40 days
Roughly how many parameters did GPT-3 have?
175 billion
What is the estimated number of people who could die in a severe engineered pandemic scenario?
2 billion
Roughly how many people globally lack access to basic drinking water services?
703 million
About how many land animals are slaughtered for food globally each year?
85 billion
Roughly how many AI researchers signed the 2023 statement that AI could pose an extinction risk comparable to pandemics and nuclear war?
350
What percentage of Earth's species went extinct in the largest mass extinction event in history (the Permian-Triassic)?
90%
Roughly how many children each year miss at least one dose of the basic DTP3 vaccine series?
20 million