Futurekind Fundamentals Mini-Fellowship Quick-Links
Week One: Introduction to AI and Animal welfare (Pilot Session 1/2)
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Week Two: Diving deep into precision livestock farming (Pilot Session 2/2)
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As a full Futurekind Fellow you'll experience:
🎓 The Learning Block (weeks 1-6):
- Be part of a facilitated discussion group with high quality project mentoring and scoping support
- Survey current & emerging AI applications with significant implications for environmental and animal protection such as factory farming or decoding animal communication
- Gain access to powerful AI tools for animal advocacy
- Through our Horizons series, explore future pathways at the AI for impact frontier
🏗️ The Project Block (weeks 7-12):
- Transition from learners to doers
- Prepare a final work drawing on what you have learned during the course: a concrete contribution to AI for animal and environmental protection
- To support research, collaboration, & project development, you will have access to ChatNGO, a powerful AI platform tailored for nonprofits, generously provided by Stray Dog Institute
- On top of this, you will also receive tailored mentorship from leading professionals across academia, industry, & other sectors who will guide your project development & off-ramps into coding, research, policy, impact or elsewhere.
Futurekind is a selective course. There is no ideal Futurekind Fellow. What we are looking for above all is not necessarily over-sized technical or academic skillsets (though we welcome those!) but a commitment to impact and a curiosity about innovation. We get around ten applicants for every place and aim to upskill 500 fellows this year alone. So completing and reflecting on the Fundamentals mini-fellowship is a great starting point for standing out from the crowd.
Futurekind Fellows come from all backgrounds and walks of life. They are united by their determination to make the AI era work for good and to maximizing their impact. If you think Futurekind might be for you but you're not sure, we urge you to apply and see where it takes you. We look forward to you joining our community soon.
