Project Incubator Showcase Day 2: AI×Animals
Virtual Event · Thursday, May 7, 2026 · 17:00-19:15 UTC
Lightning talks from 20 early-stage AI and animal welfare projects developed during our first eight-week incubator, across two presentation blocks, with structured networking rounds in between.
Interested in more projects? See Day 1: Digital Minds, Post-AGI Futures, & Beyond.
See all project descriptions and schedule times here.
Block 1: Frontier/Technical AI Focus
Needle in a Haystack: Measuring LLMs' True Convictions on Animal Welfare · Oliver Tullio
Compassion of LLM Assistant towards Sentient Beings · Shubham Gupta
Does Compassion Generalise? A New Benchmark for Moral Reasoning · Declan McKenna
Which Textual Features of Synthetic Midtraining Data Influence Compassion-Related Model Behavior? · Harper Dunn
Hyperstition for Good, Automated Opportunities Bot, and Compassionbench.com · Hailey Sherman
Pro-Animal Wikipedians: Present and Future · Mukul P. (pre-recorded)
Evaluating Pre-Training Data Influence in LLMs: A Case Study on Pro-Animal Wikipedians · María Navas Sánchez
Precision Welfare: AI Tools for Monitoring Shrimp Welfare · Shreya Vikram
Shrimp Sentience Research Prioritization Guide · Guillaume Reho
Fish Welfare Decision-Support Tool · Anusha Narain
Block 2: Applied AI focus
PLF Adoption in the Global South: Governance and Consequences · Abirami Raveendranath
Making Wild Animal Suffering Tractable through AI-Enabled Tools · Philip Kratz & Balázs László
Optimizing the formulation of cheese analogues through AI · Deneille Guiseppi
ensynAIsthesis · Vicky Protopapadaki & Christoph Krueger
Kincentric Policy Reader · Cebuan Bliss & Thomas Radinger
Envisioning a video game incubator that nurtures compassion for animals · André Blas
Book project: "AI, Animals, and Us" · Max Taylor & René Itah & Henrike Gätjens & Lexley Maree Villasis
Effective Advocacy Project: Mapping Actors & Tracking Arguments · Hubert Thieriot
Perch: tailored AI for animal advocates · Cathy Ji
Join us for the whole event, or just one block, whatever works for your schedule.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
The Sentient Futures team