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Mentors

Browse mentors from the incubator. Filter by topic and project format to find the right fit, then apply to your top three.

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Christopher Ackerman

Christopher Ackerman

Understanding Self-Awareness in LLMs

MATS/Independent

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Jen Baik

Jen Baik

Analytical coaching, product strategy, and ops support

Currently on Sabbatical, formerly Google

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Aaron Boddy

Aaron Boddy

AI × Shrimps + Precision Welfare

Shrimp Welfare Project

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Julia Bossmann

Julia Bossmann

Research AI consciousness, sentience, and welfare

CERC AAI and others

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Jasmine Brazilek

Jasmine Brazilek

A data-first approach to training compassionate AIs

CaML

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Swaptik Chowdhury

Swaptik Chowdhury

Mapping pathways to AGI loss-of-control

RAND Corporation | Dun and Bradstreet

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Albert Didriksen

Albert Didriksen

Beyond One Health: Governing humans, animals, and digital minds together

Central European University, Rutgers University

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Niki Dupuis

Niki Dupuis

Cooperative and safe AI

Independent

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Ibrahim El-chami

Ibrahim El-chami

AI's beneficial and harmful effects on the environment

AI-RD.ca, mostalabs.com,agrobotic.io

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Matilda Gibbons

Matilda Gibbons

Applying indicators of pain to LLMs

University of Pennsylvania

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Jesse Gilbert

Jesse Gilbert

Build user-friendly software demos illustrating sentience concepts and ideas

CivAI

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Alexa  Gnauck

Alexa Gnauck

Combat speciesism in public knowledge and AI training data

PAW

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Prince Jenkins

Prince Jenkins

Reimagining nonhuman depictions in games and interactive media

Independent

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Arturs Kanepajs

Arturs Kanepajs

AI policy, animal welfare, and economics

Effective Altruism Latvia

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Aidan Kankyoku

Aidan Kankyoku

Animal advocacy on short AI timelines / Scoping targets for prize-based philanthropy

Sandcastles

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Christoph Krueger

Christoph Krueger

Benchmarking LLMs on animals

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Institute

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Constance Li

Constance Li

Design animal-safe policies for autonomous vehicles

Sentient Futures

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Zoe Lu

Zoe Lu

Pro-sentient AGI through cooperation and competition / Advocacy in a post-ASI world

Independent

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Allen Lu

Allen Lu

Technical Strategies & Interventions for Multi-species AI Safety

AI Product Engineer (Independent)

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Jay Luong

Jay Luong

Build fellowship programs on nonhuman sentience & welfare

Fellowships Lead @ Sentient Futures

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Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

Near-term AI impacts on advocacy / Building AI tools for advocacy

Bryant Research / Greener By Default

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James Morgan

James Morgan

AI for Animals: Build and ship tools for advocates

Vegan Hacktivists

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Chris Percy

Chris Percy

Exploring cruxes in disagreements over computational functionalism

Co-Sentience Initiative

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George Profitiliotis

George Profitiliotis

Outer space exploration and future suffering

Netherlands Institute of Ecology / Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

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Tianyi Alex Qiu

Tianyi Alex Qiu

Long-term moral progress in AI

Anthropic Fellows / Peking University

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Elahe Rajabiani

Elahe Rajabiani

The Multispecies Council: Nature's voice in governance

JRC - European Commission's Joint Research Centre

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Raphael Sarfati

Raphael Sarfati

AI interpretability for interspecies communication

Cornell University + start-up

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Alistair Stewart

Alistair Stewart

Building better AI futures for all sentient beings

Center for Reducing Suffering

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Jordan Stone

Jordan Stone

Space governance and macrostrategy

Imperial College London

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Max Taylor

Max Taylor

Assisting with my book on AI and animals

Senior Researcher, Animal Charity Evaluators

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Matt Tom

Matt Tom

Entrepreneurship, product design, and systems thinking

MTCC

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Rohun Tripathi

Rohun Tripathi

Accelerating lab-grown meat with AI

Allen Institute for AI

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Martyna Wielopolska

Martyna Wielopolska

Need structure and accountability to ship your AI×Animals project?

DataWalk

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Soenke Ziesche

Soenke Ziesche

25-year UN consultant focusing on AI sentience and ethics

Independent

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