Patrick Butlin
2025
Anticipation Committee member
Pulse of Science
Patrick Butlin is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science and a researcher at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford. His research is on consciousness, agency and other mental capacities and attributes in humans, animals and AI systems. In 2023, he led an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, neuroscientists and AI researchers in publishing the report 'Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness'. Patrick has previously worked at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, King's College London, and the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp.
