I helped Sentient Futures run the first iteration of their Project Incubator. The program brought together around 120 people, split between mentors and mentees, to work on impactful projects focused on improving the welfare of all sentient beings. If you're curious, some projects that came out of the first incubator include:
There were many otherconcreteoutputs from the incubator, over half of the projects are continuing after the end of the program, and we received a median score of 9/10 for how likely a participant is to recommend the program to friends or colleagues with similar interests (from both mentors and mentees). These outcomes surpassed our expectations, and so we're hosting a second iteration!
What does the program look like for mentors?
Fully remote, running for 10 weeks from approximately August 30 to November 9.
Bring your own project ideas that can span a range of cause areas - frontier animal welfare, digital minds, post-AGI futures - and get matched with vetted mentees who can serve as research assistants and skilled collaborators.
Gain access to a growing network of mentors working to expand the frontier of nonhuman welfare, while simultaneously building up and shaping the next generation of people trying to do the same.
Time commitment typically looks like a 30-60 minute weekly call with light async support during the program dates. This is a lower bound and can be increased depending on how involved you'd like to be!
Most AI safety work currently fails to account for sentient beings beyond humans alive today. This paradigm needs to shift to increase the chances we can prevent the mass suffering of, and ideally create great futures for, future sentient beings. If you have a project that can help, I'd appreciate your help. We'd love to see a range of project ideas in this next round, and are especially interested to see more technical projects; benchmarks, evals, fine-tuning experiments, etc. If you or anyone you know would be a good fit, please apply to be a mentor by July 8th!
I'd love to answer any questions you might have here or by email. Don't hesitate to reach out!
I helped Sentient Futures run the first iteration of their Project Incubator. The program brought together around 120 people, split between mentors and mentees, to work on impactful projects focused on improving the welfare of all sentient beings. If you're curious, some projects that came out of the first incubator include:
There were many other concrete outputs from the incubator, over half of the projects are continuing after the end of the program, and we received a median score of 9/10 for how likely a participant is to recommend the program to friends or colleagues with similar interests (from both mentors and mentees). These outcomes surpassed our expectations, and so we're hosting a second iteration!
What does the program look like for mentors?
Most AI safety work currently fails to account for sentient beings beyond humans alive today. This paradigm needs to shift to increase the chances we can prevent the mass suffering of, and ideally create great futures for, future sentient beings. If you have a project that can help, I'd appreciate your help. We'd love to see a range of project ideas in this next round, and are especially interested to see more technical projects; benchmarks, evals, fine-tuning experiments, etc. If you or anyone you know would be a good fit, please apply to be a mentor by July 8th!
I'd love to answer any questions you might have here or by email. Don't hesitate to reach out!