Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943 in Talca) is a former Chilean Cabinet Minister and researcher into artificial intelligence. Flores worked for the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then had to spend three years as a political prisoner of General Augusto Pinochet (from Septembre 11 , 1973 to 1976). Released after negotiations of Amnesty International, he established his family in Palo Alto and started to work as a researcher of the Copmuter Science departament at Stanford University where he studied a PH.D under the guidance of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus , John Searle and Ann Markussen . There he 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 including "Logonet", an educational company; "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company; and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in Workflow Analysis, Groupware, software design and business process analysis. Flores 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 (with Terry Winograd), Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity, and contributor to Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years, a special issue of the Communications of the ACM journal.

His new project is a movement called Atina Chile