AI tools to empower advocates AI’s nearterm impact on animals Longtermism and future suffering Wild animal welfare Neglected and emerging animal groups (e.g. fish, insects)

Prince Jenkins

Reimagining nonhuman depictions in games and interactive media

Independent

Bio

I am a creative productivity partner. I enjoy mentoring early-stage thinkers, especially people exploring how projects can shift culture and expand imaginationfor better futures for nonhuman animals.
I am a generalist with mixed experiences in startup founder coaching, cybersecurity compliance federal consulting, plant-based VC fund building, and diverse project management work.
Most recently I have been upskilling in AI ethics and exploring material impacts of AI compute and applications on animals, environments, and humans.

Mentee must-haves/nice-to-haves

For my project: experience as a gamer
For your project: open

Mentee role

Be creative partners.
Help build early interest areas (e.g., ethics guidelines, AI tools, game design concepts, or movement-building strategies).
Help shape and co-create key components of the incubator by researching, brainstorming, evaluating, and refining the idea.
Think through ethical design questions, test AI use-cases, and develop materials that make the incubator practical and persuasive to future developers and funders.

❓ Sample mentee tasks

Explore AI use-cases such as narrative engines, animal behavior modeling, or compassionate design checklists.
Design principles that illustrate what the incubator could produce (imagine sample “compassionate game” concepts, narrative ideas)
Design components of the curriculum, such as ethics modules, AI-assisted creativity sessions, or prototyping labs.
Creating small experiments (e.g. like micro-stories, mock-ups, or scenario prompts) to demonstrate the incubator’s creative potential.
Helping create pitch materials, one-page summaries, or diagrams that communicate the value of the incubator to partners and funders.

Mentor support

I enjoy helping people shape fuzzy ideas into grounded projects/ventures.
As a creative productivity partner, I work best with folks who benefit from idea wrangling (through prompts) into tracked action + reflection.
I am best for folks who need reflection and focus with tracking and getting-stuff-done.

Mentor-led project

Game studio venture

This project is a bit beyond the idea stage. The goal is to reimagine how animals are represented in simulative digital content (video games, simulations, and AI-generated media). We will be developing the foundational structure for a new game development incubator focused on animal ethics and AI. We will be asking 'how can AI assist in designing humane, non-extractive representations of nonhuman life in interactive media?'

One part involves translating ethical questions and standardizing animal abstraction guidelines (ethics, world-building approaches, data portals).
The other part involves developing a collaborative structured program to support writers, game designers, developers, artists, and ethicists in building prototypes, stories, and tools that treat animals as subjects, not objects.

Output

A refined incubator vision, draft curriculum, implementation plan, outreach strategy, a clear articulation of how the incubator advances animal-aligned AI and culture change, sample design guidelines, and small creative experiments illustrating the incubator’s mission.