Project Incubator Showcase, Day 1: Digital Minds, Post-AGI Futures & More
Virtual event · Wednesday, May 6, 2026 · 17:00–19:15 UTC
Lightning talks from 16 projects across two presentation blocks, with structured networking rounds in between.
More interested in animal welfare? See Day 2: AIxAnimals.
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: Digital Minds
AI Consciousness Demo · Keerthi Veeramachaneni
Refining arguments for and against computational functionalism · Demian Till
What Would Convince You of AI Consciousness? · Jessica White, Max Miller & Maerlin Ellis Diem
Consulting Theorists to Build Testable Indicators of Consciousness in AI · Tristan Day
Do emotional prompts affect LLM behaviors? · Dwayne Wilkes
Could AI value money and how can it have economic agency? · Shalina Prakash
Mapping the AI Welfare Frontier · Arsam Shaheen
Block 2: Post-AGI Futures & More
Multi-Agent Alignment Game · David Ghiberdic & Zoe Lu
Mechanistic Interpretability for Interspecies Communication · Evan Harris & Siddharth Putta
AI safety is maturing. Is its generalist talent pipeline keeping up? · Uladzislau Linnik & Enisa Ismaili
Introducing Decision Compass - Clarity on Your Hardest Decisions · Alex Parry
TAC: Your AI Travel Agent Would Book You a Bullfight · Joel Christoph
Technical governance and regulation for oceanic data centers · Zachary Kaplan
Can AI Predict Its Own Future? Ideosphere · Rei Jarram & Mariana Oka
Health in transhumanist scenarios · Kimberly Castro
Allocating Orbits Around the Sun · Brody McManus
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