Chi Rainer Bornfree is a writer, philosopher, and activist. With a PhD from U. C. Berkeley, they have taught at Bard, Princeton, and New York state prisons. They are the co-founder of the Activist Graduate School, and the co-creator of ‘AI for the People’, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary vision of an ecological human–AI symbiosis. As assistant editor of The Philosopher magazine, they published a regular column called ‘Liquid Philosophy’ and interviewed prominent public intellectuals. Chi now makes their home in Hudson Valley, New York, where they write, homeschool their kids, grow vegetables, and organize events in their community.