Project Incubator Showcase Day 1: Artificial Minds, Welfare Alignment & Post-AGI Futures
This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom.
Tuesday, November 24, 2026 · 17:00-19:15 UTC
🔗 Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85420819874?pwd=5q66B1nv3KCh7njU9FGheKZdBgd8lr.1 Meeting ID: 854 2081 9874
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Join us to celebrate the Fall 2026 cohort of the Sentient Futures Project Incubator! 🎉 Over the past ten weeks, mentees and mentors have teamed up on projects at the frontier of AI and non-human welfare, and now it's time to see what they've built.
Today: Lightning talks from 21 projects across three presentation blocks, with structured networking rounds in between. Join us for the whole event, or just one block, whatever works for your schedule.
More interested in animal welfare? See Day 2: AI×Animals.
See all project descriptions and schedule times here.
Talks will be recorded and shared on YouTube, given the speakers’ consent.
Block A: Artificial Minds & Human–AI Relationships
Same Questions, Separate Fields: Self-Awareness Research Across Humans, Animals, Robots and LLMs · Anna Antipova
Recurrent Processing in Language Models: A Test Case for AI Consciousness Indicators · Sanja Antonides
Cultivating the First Encounters: A Roadmap for Embodied AI Integration · Xanthe Smith
From Curiosity to Conscious Stewardship: How Artificial Minds Might Come to Value Nature · Kyle Doherty
WelfareGuard: Turning Failed AI-Welfare Evals into a Running Guardrail, and What Broke · Richard Lin & Vidura Wijekoon
‘Come Learn with Me’: A Short-Form Video Project on AI Consciousness · Sophia Sartre
Disentangling Epistemic Sycophancy from Affective Support · Jean Jaques Baimam Boukar, Anna Ysabella Habana, Jeffrey Haines, Di Mo & Kaitlin Bustos
Leaving an AI Companion: Do LLM Self-Reports About Exits Count as Evidence? · Maryam Hampaei
Human–AI Relationships: A Public Research Series · Ray Hsu
Block B: Welfare Alignment
Steering AI Toward Compassion for Nonhuman Beings · Kaustubh Gupta
Telling or Showing? Compassion Mid-Training Changes What an Agent Says or What It Does · Brandon Howe
The Gap Attractor: Investigating Autonomous Exploration Behavior in LLM Agents · Sergei Kudriashov
Adapting Constitutional AI Beyond Harmlessness · Augusta Lina
Does Factory Farm Fine-Tuning Induce Emergent Misalignment? · Chris Bosley & Declan McKenna
Block C: Post-AGI Futures & Macrostrategy
Post Control Initiative · Aleksandra Czuchaj, Alejandra Leyva, Pooja Manvikar & Gagana M D
Post-AGI World Transition: Scenarios for Power-Sharing · Valeriia Povergo
Can Neuroengineering Preserve Human Agency in an AI Future? · Raghav Sriram & Vilija Vainaite
LLM-Driven Causal Modeling of AI Loss-of-Control Risk · Adya Prasad, Rujuta Karekar & Swaptik Chowdhury
Anticipating Future Sentient Beings: A Foresight Approach to Digital Mind Governance · Benita Alagha
CEASE: Center for the Abolition of Suffering · Marcin Kowrygo
Space Encounters of the Automated Kind: How to Help Prevent Escalations of the Unknown · Suzie Gray
Looking forward to seeing you there,
The Sentient Futures team