Chris Hables Gray researches the social and political implications of science and technology. He has written over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is the author of Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict (1997), Cyborg Citizen (2001), and Peace War and Computers (2005). He was lead editor of The Cyborg Handbook (1995) and Modified: Living as a Cyborg (2021).

He has a number of books in process, including Virus is a Language: AI, COVID-19, and QAnon (forthcoming from Goldsmiths University Press), Sacred Violence, Military AI, and War in the Middle East (with Dr. Cheyenne Laue and under accelerated review and publication by Palgrave Press) and Prefigurative AI: The Making of AI (with Prof. Angel Gordo, under consideration by Bristol University Press). He also writes science fiction, and two of his stories from a cycle about the psychological implications of emerging technologies have been published.

Both his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from UCSC´s infamous History of Consciousness program are interdisciplinary. He first taught at Stanford in the 1970s, courses on anarchism and also men and feminism. After school he spent several decades as a working class activist. He remains a committed citizen of California, which means taking part in many different levels of politics.

He taught the required core course at Crown College for many years, along with other classes at UCSC. He has held full time positions at Goddard College, the Union Institute and University and the University of Great Falls. He has also taught at Oregon State University, University College Cork (Ireland), Jan Masaryk University (Czech Republic), and most recently NYU.

A tenth generation Californian, he lives downtown in Santa Cruz with his oldest son, a winemaker, when he is not traveling, most often to Spain and Cataluña. Besides writing, he does art, such as creating Tarot cards, gardens on his balcony, plays disc golf, and keeps promising himself he will soon get a cat.