Dr. Elias Kairos Chen
Exploring how artificial intelligence, agency and superintelligence are reshaping organisations, economies, governance and the human future.
Intellectual interests
Dr. Elias Kairos Chen is an AI researcher, entrepreneur, strategic adviser and author. His work asks what intelligence is becoming, natural and artificial, and what that means for organisations, economies, governance and the human future.
Scientific research
His research background is in brain-inspired artificial intelligence, with peer-reviewed work on spiking neural networks, the NeuCube brain-inspired architecture and emotion recognition from brain signals and multimodal data. More recent working papers address architectures toward general intelligence and adolescents' digital wellbeing.
Earlier peer-reviewed publications appear under the name C. Tan (Clarence Tan), a name he previously used.
Entrepreneurial and executive experience
He founded Kiros Intelligence Group in 2005 and leads it from Asia-Pacific, working with collaborators across the United States and Europe. He is the founder and CEO of SafeGuardAI, which applies research on adolescent development and privacy-preserving AI to children's digital wellbeing, and he invests in and advises AI companies.
Writing and publications
He originated the Age of Agency, Agentrification and Universal Basic Intelligence frameworks, writes the newsletter Framing the Future of Intelligence, and is the author of the forthcoming book The Age of Agency.
Applied advisory work
Through Kiros Intelligence Group, he contributes to strategic advisory work with boards and enterprises on AI strategy, agentic transformation, governance and measurable value creation.