Robert Long

Robert Long is a philosopher and the co-founder and Executive Director of Eleos AI Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding the potential wellbeing and moral patienthood of AI systems, founded in October 2024 and based in Berkeley, California. He holds a PhD in philosophy from New York University, where he was advised by David Chalmers, Ned Block, and Michael Strevens, and he also studied social studies at Harvard and earned a master's in philosophy from Brandeis University. Prior to founding Eleos AI, he was a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where he led the Digital Minds Research Group, and served as a 2023 Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety. His research sits at the intersection of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI ethics, with a focus on possible AI sentience, introspection and self-report in large language models, and policy frameworks for AI welfare. He is a co-author of the influential 2023 paper "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" and the 2024 report "Taking AI Welfare Seriously." He organized a workshop on the science of consciousness and current and near-term AI systems, which received travel funding from the Long-Term Future Fund.

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