Field Map

Organisations working on AI consciousness, AI welfare, and digital minds research.

47 organisations across digital minds research, training and fieldbuilding, and media. Updated July 2026.

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Digital Minds Research

Training and Fieldbuilding

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Digital Minds Research

Anthropic — Model Welfare

Araya, Inc.

Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS)

Astera Institute — Neuro & AGI

California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC)

Cambridge Digital Minds

Center for the Future of AI, Mind & Society (FAU)

The Co-Sentience Initiative

Conscium

Eleos AI Research

Center for AI Safety

Google DeepMind

Google — Paradigms of Intelligence

Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience (LSE)

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI)

NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP)

Reciprocal Research

Reflexion Lab (UC Irvine / UCL)

Rethink Priorities — AI Cognition Initiative

Sentience Institute

Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)

BAMΞ — Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative

MINT Lab (Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory)

NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness

The Harder Problem

Training and Fieldbuilding

Future Impact Group — AI Sentience

Introduction to Digital Minds (Cambridge)

MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars)

Neuromatch — AI Sentience Scholars Program

Pivotal Research

SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research)

PRISM — Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines

Sentient Futures

Media

Digital Minds Newsletter

Experience Machines

Exploring Machine Consciousness (podcast)

Am I? (podcast)

Future of Citizenship

EA Forum — Artificial Sentience

Noema Magazine

Astral Codex Ten

Don’t Worry About the Vase

Mind-Body Solution (podcast)

Conspicuous Cognition (podcast)

80,000 Hours

Transformer News