Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943 in Talca) is a former Chilean Cabinet Minister and researcher into artificial intelligence. Flores spent three years as a political prisoner of General Augusto Pinochet (from Septembre 11, 1973 to 1976), released after negotiations of Amnesty International he stablish his family in Palo Alto and start to work as a resercher of the Copmuter Science departament of the Stanford University which he went to California where he studied a PH.D under the guide of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus, John Searl, Ann Markussen developed his work on philosophy, coaching, and workflow technology, influenced by Heidegger, Maturana, John Austin and others. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. His thesis was titled Management and Communication in the Office of the Future. He created several companies as "Logonet", an educational company, "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company, and Action Technologies (http://www.actiontech.com), a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in Workflow Analysis, GroupWare, software design and business process analysis. He has recently been elected to the Senate in Chile. He is the author of Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design, and Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity, and contributor to Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years.

His new project is a movement called Atina Chile (http://www.atinachile.cl)