Anil Seth won the 2025 annual Berggruen Prize Essay Competition for his English-language essay, “The Mythology Of Conscious AI.”

A neuroscience professor and the director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Seth is also the co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness. He wrote, “Being  You: A New Science of Consciousness” (Dutton, 2021).