Dr Christopher Register
Research Fellow in Ethics and Moral Psychology
Chris is a Research Fellow in Ethics and Moral Psychology of Conscious Awareness in Artificial Intelligence at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a research affiliate of HOPE, the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics. He is working on the Uehiro Centre’s research project: Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture (‘CAVAA’) https://cavaa.eu/. 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.
