2026-08-09T02:26:14-04:00 2025-12-31 990 2025-01-01 393072111 Sentient Futures Inc SENT 6283332228 1680 MISSION ST 409 San Francisco CA 941032414 Constance Li Executive Director 6283332228 2026-08-10 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Constance Li 1680 MISSION ST 409 San Francisco CA 941032414 894169 false X www.sentientfutures.ai X 2025 DE Sentient Futures advances understanding and supports efforts to improve the future welfare of all sentient beings through education research and field-building. 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 875830 0 0 0 1453 0 16886 0 894169 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1918 0 137013 0 137013 0 757156 0 764781 0 7624 0 757157 Sentient Futures advances understanding and supports efforts to improve the future welfare of all sentient beings through education research and field-building. false false 30496 0 16886 Conferences and Strategic Events: Sentient Futures organized two major in-person convenings during the tax year. In October 2025 the organization hosted AI Animals & Digital Minds NYC a two-day unconference bringing together over 90 researchers builders and technologists for 18 lightning talks a keynote address and 22 attendee-led sessions on the intersection of AI and nonhuman welfare. In September 2025 the organization ran a first-of-its-kind AGI x Animals tabletop exercise in which 19 animal welfare leaders stress-tested strategies against hypothetical scenarios involving rapid AI advancement. One participating organization has since adopted the exercise for its own fellows program. 30346 0 0 Fellowship Programs: The organization developed and launched its first two online fellowship programs. AI x Animals is an 8-week course preparing learners for impactful careers at the intersection of AI and animal welfare covering topics such as precision livestock farming AI alignment and interspecies communication. Prioritizing Neglected Animals is a 6-week program exploring how to make the biggest difference for animal welfare now and in the future. Across the two programs over 100 participants drawn from backgrounds in technology law policy philosophy animal science advocacy and journalism completed the first cohorts during the reporting period. In post-program surveys a majority of alumni reported the fellowship was substantially more valuable than how they would have otherwise used their time and expected it to influence their professional work. 29802 0 0 Community Building and Information Sharing: Sentient Futures maintained and grew an online professional community of over 1,000 members via its Slack workspace which serves as the central coordination hub for researchers advocates and technologists working on future-oriented nonhuman welfare. The organization curated and shared career and funding opportunities from over 100 vetted source organizations facilitated introductions and collaborations between community members and organizations in the field and hosted regular virtual networking events. The community also served as the coordination space for multiple organizations developing benchmarks to measure LLMs propensity towards animal welfare. In addition the organization published a regular monthly newsletter reaching approximately 2,000 to 3,000 readers per edition with curated updates on developments across AI animal welfare and digital sentience. 13133 0 0 Research and Field Development: The organization assisted in facilitating the development of ANIMA Animal Norms In Moral Assessment a standardized benchmark for evaluating how large language models reason about animal welfare released in November 2025 and made publicly available on the UK AI Security Institutes Inspect Evals platform the first animal welfare benchmark in that standard evaluation framework. The organization sourced expert framing for the benchmark and supplied the volunteer engineer who completed the platform integration before handing off long-term maintenance to a dedicated successor organization. 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Part VI, Line 12c All directors and key employees are required to disclose conflicts annually according to the conflict of interest policy. Part VI, Line 15 The Executive Director is not compensated and serves in a volunteer capacity. This decision is approved by the Board of Directors. The compensation for other key employees is set by the Executive Director based on market rates at similarly situated nonprofits. Part VI, Line 19 The governing documents financial statements and other policies are made available upon request to the public.