Brian Christian

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Brian Christian (born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American author and poet,[1][2] best known for his book The Most Human Human.[3] He competed as a "confederate" in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition,[4] attempting to seem "more human" than the humans taking the test, and succeeded.[5][6] He was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on March 8, 2011.[7]

In 2010, Christian collaborated with film director Michael Langan on a short film adaptation of Christian's poem "Heliotropes."[8]

Christian attended high school at the prestigious High Technology High School in Lincroft, NJ.

Christian holds a degree from Brown University in computer science and philosophy, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington.[3] He is also an alumnus of High Technology High School class of 2002. He is a native of Little Silver, New Jersey.[9]

In 2016, Christian's Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions written with Tom Griffiths, was published by Henry Holt.

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  2. Official website of Brian Christian
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  4. Mind vs. Machine, an article by Brian Christian for The Atlantic
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  9. Van Develde, Elaine. "A bicycle trip that leads to someone else’s home", Atlanticville, January 9, 2004. Accessed April 3, 2011.

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