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

Christopher Ackerman
Understanding Self-Awareness in LLMs
MATS/Independent
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Jen Baik
Analytical coaching, product strategy, and ops support
Currently on Sabbatical, formerly Google
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Aaron Boddy
AI × Shrimps + Precision Welfare
Shrimp Welfare Project
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Julia Bossmann
Research AI consciousness, sentience, and welfare
CERC AAI and others
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Jasmine Brazilek
A data-first approach to training compassionate AIs
CaML
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Swaptik Chowdhury
Mapping pathways to AGI loss-of-control
RAND Corporation | Dun and Bradstreet
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Albert Didriksen
Beyond One Health: Governing humans, animals, and digital minds together
Central European University, Rutgers University
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Niki Dupuis
Cooperative and safe AI
Independent
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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
Applying indicators of pain to LLMs
University of Pennsylvania
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Jesse Gilbert
Build user-friendly software demos illustrating sentience concepts and ideas
CivAI
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Alexa Gnauck
Combat speciesism in public knowledge and AI training data
PAW
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Prince Jenkins
Reimagining nonhuman depictions in games and interactive media
Independent
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Arturs Kanepajs
AI policy, animal welfare, and economics
Effective Altruism Latvia
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Aidan Kankyoku
Animal advocacy on short AI timelines / Scoping targets for prize-based philanthropy
Sandcastles
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Christoph Krueger
Benchmarking LLMs on animals
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Institute
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Constance Li
Design animal-safe policies for autonomous vehicles
Sentient Futures
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Zoe Lu
Pro-sentient AGI through cooperation and competition / Advocacy in a post-ASI world
Independent
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Allen Lu
Technical Strategies & Interventions for Multi-species AI Safety
AI Product Engineer (Independent)
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Jay Luong
Build fellowship programs on nonhuman sentience & welfare
Fellowships Lead @ Sentient Futures
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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
AI for Animals: Build and ship tools for advocates
Vegan Hacktivists
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Chris Percy
Exploring cruxes in disagreements over computational functionalism
Co-Sentience Initiative
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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
Long-term moral progress in AI
Anthropic Fellows / Peking University
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Elahe Rajabiani
The Multispecies Council: Nature's voice in governance
JRC - European Commission's Joint Research Centre
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Raphael Sarfati
AI interpretability for interspecies communication
Cornell University + start-up
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Alistair Stewart
Building better AI futures for all sentient beings
Center for Reducing Suffering
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Jordan Stone
Space governance and macrostrategy
Imperial College London
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Max Taylor
Assisting with my book on AI and animals
Senior Researcher, Animal Charity Evaluators
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Matt Tom
Entrepreneurship, product design, and systems thinking
MTCC
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Rohun Tripathi
Accelerating lab-grown meat with AI
Allen Institute for AI
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Martyna Wielopolska
Need structure and accountability to ship your AI×Animals project?
DataWalk
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Soenke Ziesche
25-year UN consultant focusing on AI sentience and ethics
Independent
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