Dr Christopher Register

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Research Fellow in Ethics and Moral Psychology of Conscious Awareness in Artificial Intelligence at UOI

Chris is a Research Fellow in Ethics and Moral Psychology of Conscious Awareness in Artificial Intelligence at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, and a research affiliate of HOPE, the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics. He has a background in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the metaphysics of moral patients (PhD, Princeton University). He is currently working on philosophical-ethical and empirical studies of human judgments about conscious awareness in AI systems, especially as that informs considerations of privacy, value alignment, and ethical AI design.