Brian Christian (born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American author and poet, best known for his book The Most Human Human. He competed as a "confederate" in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition, attempting to seem "more human" than the humans taking the test, and succeeded. He was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on March 8, 2011.
In 2010, Christian collaborated with film director Michael Langan on a short film adaptation of Christian's poem "Heliotropes."
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. He is also an alumnus of High Technology High School class of 2002. He is a native of Little Silver, New Jersey.
In 2016, Christian's Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions written with Tom Griffiths, was published by Henry Holt.