Chris Riley
Disruptive internet policy engineer, beverage connoisseur, gregarious introvert, contrarian order Muppet, persistent optimist (somehow!), and proud husband & father. Not in order.
At the moment
A book
Abstraction and Resilience: The Characteristics of Consciousness
A work of nonfiction offering a novel theory that consciousness can be read as the interaction of two measurable characteristics: abstraction and resilience.
That framework gives us a way to reason about AI, including in particular about when and how it might reach a point of legitimate moral salience. It's the foundation of my research at AxR Lab.
Explore the book at AxR Lab ↗Selected writing
Before this
Elsewhere
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