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, & More

​Rough timings (UTC)

• ​17:00 Welcome

• ​17:10 Presentations, block 1

• ​17:50 Networking rounds

• ​18:10 Presentations, block 2

• ​18:50 Networking rounds

• ​19:10 Wrap-up

​See all project descriptions 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

• ​Animal-Inclusive Autonomous Vehicle Safety · Gowrav Mannem

• ​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 · TBA

• ​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