Artificial sentience Wild animal welfare Longtermism and future suffering AI’s nearterm impact on animals Post-AGI transition/Transformative AI Macrostrategy, philosophy, and cause prioritisation
Jay Luong
Build fellowship programs on nonhuman sentience & welfare
Fellowships Lead @ Sentient Futures
Bio
Philosopher of science, mind, cognitive science, & Internet memes
Interests:
- Consciousness/sentience in AI and animals
- Theory & practice of interdisciplinarity
- Metaphilosophy & experimental philosophy
- Social constructionism, conceptual engineering, critical neurosciences
- Philosophy of biology, philosophy of social sciences
Mentee must-haves/nice-to-haves
Must-haves:
- Research experience
- Conscientious
- Systematic thinker
- Generalist sensibility Nice-to-haves:
- Domain knowledge in nonhuman sentience & welfare, AI/ML
- Familiarity with Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Airtable
- LLM proficiency
Mentee role
- Literature review, summarising articles, research distillation
- Developing lesson plans, activities, etc.
- Building application systems & running fellowship application cycle (including promotion)
- Managing fellowships inbox
- Optimising & automating standard operating procedures
Questions for applicants
Please review ≥1 of the following & suggest a few areas for improvement:
Mentor-led project
Build fellowship programs on nonhuman sentience & welfare
Gain hands-on experience on course development & administration while supporting development of spring 2026 fieldbuilding programmes at Sentient Futures