Chris Percy

Chris Percy PhD is the lead researcher on a project team grant to research artificial consciousness (April 2025 – April 2026). The grant covers: mapping/improving resources to support decision making around artificial consciousness; investigating (even more) neglected topics such as “analogue” system consciousness; & exploring links with x-risk game theory & alignment. Chris's career background is in applied ML/XAI and policy, primarily in education and public health. He is a voting member at the ASSC, a patent holder in applied ML, and holds visiting research affiliations at the Universities of Warwick and Derby (UK) and QRI (US). As a consulting researcher, Chris has worked with lots of organisations, from international agencies (World Bank, ILO, OECD, ...) and charities (Cancer Research UK, Royal Society, Wellcome Trust, ...), as well as governments in eight nations and a fun range of start-ups and corporates.