While modern technology too often overlooks the non-human world, it also possesses immense potential to protect it.
The Futurekind Fellowship reclaims this promise empowering fellows over twelve intensive weeks to harness artificial intelligence as a force for empathy and care.
The 47 projects from our Spring 2026 cohort exemplify this shift. Spanning wildlife conservation, farmed animal welfare, and urban stray management, these initiatives ensure that sentient life across every ecosystem is recognized, respected, and protected.
Explore the Spring 2026 cohort's project submissions below, categorized by thematic focus and methodology:
AI BUILDS
After the Seizure (Agba Frances Chinaza) App
A mobile-first welfare triage tool providing immediate, rule-based guidance for untrained responders handling rescued pangolins.
Multimodal Animal Welfare Monitoring Platform (Akash Solanki) Github
A modular dashboard integrating video analysis, audio processing, and behavioural observations for real-time welfare monitoring.
PASTA — Protein Analog Screening with Taste & Allergen-aware ranking (Anna Antipova) App
An open-source search tool using a protein language model to find plant-based functional analogs for animal proteins in a 3.3-million-protein database.
Ethiq (Bridget Imarhia) Github
A humane grocery scanner that allows consumers to see how the animals behind supermarket products were treated.
Animal Chatter (Pandey Shubhamraj Krishnakant) Github
An automated news aggregation platform monitoring over 1,000 Indian networks for animal welfare and conservation news.
AIlouros Cat Colony Assistant (Rozana Tsiknaki) File
An AI-assisted conversational database system for structured record-keeping and data retrieval for managed community cat colonies.
Animal Advocacy Helper (Omkar Bharat Bhujbal) Github
An automated content discovery and classification platform evaluating social media for animal welfare friendliness.
Skin disease classifier for stray dogs (Pranav Sanghi) Github
A computer vision tool designed to predict whether a dog is healthy or has specific skin diseases.
SpayTrack India (Shrijani Manna) Github
A community registry platform for GPS-tagging stray animal sterilizations and facilitating transparent shelter fundraising.
Whale Interpreter (Suma Dodmani) App
A Hybrid AI System for Whale Vocalization Analysis. An intelligent marine bioacoustics system identifying whale species from underwater audio.
PashuSaarthi (Sandesh Prakash Dawkhar) Github
An AI-powered evidence packaging tool that processes farm video footage to instantly find and timestamp welfare observations.
Whisker Wardn (Celsa Almeida) App
A welfare-first application using computer vision and sound to deter rodents humanely without lethal measures.
Partner Research Automation (Janice Chang) File
An automated tool for identifying corporate sponsors to streamline outreach for advocacy organizations.
Mapa Animal (Sabina Bravo Rebolledo) App
A public accountability tool mapping regulatory infractions in the Chilean livestock, dairy, and poultry industries.
Shadow Discourse (Lucinda Bean) App
An AI roleplay tool designed to help animal advocates practice and refine their messaging.
RESEARCH & POLICY
Can Multilingual AI Improve Animal Welfare Information Access? (Karan Verma) File
A pilot benchmark investigating how large language models communicate animal welfare concepts across English, Hindi, and Punjabi.
AI Regulation for Animals Welfare (Tushti Chopra) File
A research project studying governance vacuums in AI law and proposing regulations to protect animal welfare.
After Meat: What Happens to Animals When We No Longer Need Them (Rufaro Daniel Nyakudya) Essay
An exploration of the ethical transition for animals if technologies make conventional agriculture unnecessary.
Narrative Transportation and Speciesism in Large Language Models (David Adeshina Arungbemi) File
Research investigating whether immersive narratives can change the moral attitudes expressed by language models toward animals.
Animal Welfare Impact Checker (Osuji Ben Osondu) File
An AI-powered prototype helping developers and policymakers assess the potential impacts of AI systems on animals.
Sentience Salience Probe (Isobel Gee Smith) App
Technical research investigating whether language models encode an implicit hierarchy of sentience or moral worth.
Specification Gaming in a Simulated Precision Livestock Farming Environment (Isobel Gee Smith) App
A technical safety study showing how AI optimized for productivity can lead to catastrophic welfare outcomes.
Toward Animal-Inclusive AI Governance in African Agriculture (Rufaro Daniel Nyakudya) File
A policy brief proposing welfare indicators and impact assessments for AI deployment in African farming systems.
Paying for the Dead: The Benefit-Sharing Gap in AI De-Extinction (Adrianne LaNeave) Blog
A research project proposing a duty to compensate for animal data used in AI de-extinction technologies.
A Different Ontology of Life for Artificial Intelligence (Vasundhara Chaudhry) File
A paper exploring Indic traditions of consciousness as structural alternatives for AI moral reasoning.
From Backlog to Dataset (Emily Hollenbeck & Jennifer Zhuge) File
An AI-assisted pipeline transforming backlogs of camera-trap images into analysis-ready species occurrence datasets.
Who’s Missing from the Risk Score? (Alexander Ifeanyi Christopher) File
A policy brief reviewing data representativeness in AI-assisted livestock antimicrobial surveillance.
Research mapping fish welfare advocacy efforts to help strategically plan local campaigns across Asia.
AnimusBench (Bryan Sievering) File
An automated benchmarking system measuring speciesist bias in large language models using ethically complex scenarios.
Conservation AI Accountability Framework (Jennifer Zhuge & Frances Agba) App
A governance framework and risk-scoring app ensuring wildlife protection technologies are deployed ethically.
Cross-Species Functional Signal Alignment (Felix Agyekum Manu) File
Research decoding primate communication without imposing human-centric interpretive frameworks.
SpeciesCAI: Operationalizing Endorsed Values in Constitutional AI (Mark Stanley) File
Research on making animal welfare commitments explicit within Constitutional AI training frameworks.
TOOLKITS, EDUCATION & ADVOCACY SUPPORT
Local Action Ladder (Isobel Gee Smith) Github
An AI coaching assistant providing personalized, achievable pathways for animal advocacy and sustainability.
KindPath: Animal Advocacy Ecosystem Builders Navigator (Chintan Siriya & Pritesh Kamdi) App
An AI-powered search tool matching users with job boards and researchers across the advocacy ecosystem.
TacticShare (Julie Green) File
An AI-powered app that takes a user-entered campaign and classifies its profile to provide transferable insights.
FutureProteinsTN (Logesh Raja Mu) App
An AI-assisted portal for culturally grounded alt-protein adoption in Tamil Nadu using ancient food wisdom.
AI for Grassroots Animal Advocacy in Africa (Doe Kwabla Seyenam Nyamadi) File
A practical toolkit tailored to the budget and connectivity constraints of African grassroots organizations.
Communicating India's smart protein future (Sanjay Jandhayala & Leyla Amur) File
A comms playbook helping organizations build trust effectively in the smart protein sector.
SIGNAL - Verified Intelligence at the Speed of a Swipe (Sunny Jain & Giftson A.) File
A verified intelligence platform identifying and summarizing research and policy updates for advocates.
CREATIVE & EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS
Conflict Atlas: Rethinking Human–Wildlife Conflict with AI (Giftson A. & Zerah Vincent) Video
A tool transforming free-form reports into structured data to uncover the underlying drivers of conflict.
Private Worlds (David Adeshina Arungbemi) File
A philosophical creation myth exploring interspecies communication and the problem of other minds.
KindQuest (Leora Kahn) App
A children’s game that teaches the concept of consent through playful interactions with rescued farm animals.
Wild Connections: A Modular Digital Micro-Museum (Divinia Juanita D) File
A digital museum concept teaching environmental systems thinking and its impact on wild animal welfare.
A Fund of Our Own: Patronage for Animal Advocacy in the AI Age (E. G. Mead) Essay
A proposal for a modern patronage system for vegan creators to reshape culture via AI-assisted production.
Animal Voices AI (Danielle Hanosh) App
An educational AI app where users hold real conversations with animated animals to build compassion.
Artificial Consciousness for Better (Daniel Pak) Blog
A Substack post exploring the future safety implications of specifically conscious AI systems.
An interactive map and framework for allocating resources to entities with uncertain moral status.
Thank you to all of our fellows for your vision and dedication. Your work shows us that when artificial intelligence is shaped by empathy, technology ceases to be just code; it becomes a vital ally, advocate, and guardian for all animal life.