we believe in ambitious builders, thinkers, and doers who refuse to stop at human-centered design
our people
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Constance Li
founder and executive director
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Jay Luong
fellowships co-lead
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Sam Chapman
managing director
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Damin Curtis
fellowships co-lead
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Jonah Woodward
bay area event lead
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Douglas Browne
software engineer
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Bob Fischer
board director
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David Pearce
board director
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Emma Moore
social media volunteer
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Carolina Oliveira
design volunteer
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Max Taylor
content creation volunteer
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Zoé Roy-Stang
fellowships volunteer
We initially started as a volunteer project in early 2023 when the intersection of AI and emerging technologies and nonhuman welfare was largely unexplored territory. Since then, we have grown into an international field-building organization with the goal of creating a thriving ecosystem where researchers, advocates, and industry professionals can meet and collaborate to reduce suffering for all sentient beings. We facilitate this collaboration through our Slack community, conferences, fellowships, and newsletter.
At the same time, we're involved in direct work when opportunities arise. One example is the development of AnimalHarmBench, the first ever benchmark measuring risk of animal harm in LLM responses, as well as it’s successor AnimalHarmBench 2.0, which delves into the moral reasoning that LLM’s engage in.
We are constantly looking to improve the way we serve this rapidly evolving space and welcome all feedback and suggestions. Just send us an email at feedback@sentientfutures.ai. Thanks for being part of this journey with us!
You can follow us on LinkedIn to see when new events and programs become available.