we believe in ambitious builders, thinkers, and doers who refuse to stop at human-centered design

our people

  • Constance Li

    founder and executive director

  • Jay Luong

    fellowships co-lead

  • Sam Chapman

    managing director

  • Damin Curtis

    fellowships co-lead

  • Jonah Woodward

    bay area event lead

  • Douglas Browne

    software engineer

  • Bob Fischer

    Bob Fischer

    board director

  • David Pearce

    David Pearce

    board director

  • Emma Moore

    social media volunteer

  • Carolina Oliveira

    design volunteer

  • Max Taylor

    content creation volunteer

  • 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.