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Brian Green

Brian Patrick Green, director, technology ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

Director, Technology Ethics
408-554-7890
bpgreen@scu.edu

Brian Patrick Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and teaches AI ethics and space ethics in Santa Clara University’s Graduate School of Engineering. His work focuses on AI and ethics, technology ethics in corporations, the ethics and impact of AI in education, the ethics of space exploration and use, the ethics of mitigation of and adaptation towards risky emerging technologies, and various aspects of the impact of technology and engineering on human life and society, including the relationship of technology and religion.

Green is author of the book Space Ethics, co-author of Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap (The ITEC Handbook), co-author of the Ethics in Technology Practice corporate technology ethics resources, co-editor of the book Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics, and co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Moral Theology on AI.

Green has been co-editor and contributing author for three books with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education (DCE): Encountering AI: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations, Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and a forthcoming volume on education. He is a lead contributor on three World Economic Forum case studies on ethical practices at Microsoft, Salesforce, and IBM, and has worked on ethics topics with technology companies ranging from startups to the largest. He also supervises undergraduate fellows at Santa Clara in technology ethics.

Green has doctoral and master's degrees in ethics and social theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree is in genetics from the University of California, Davis. Between college and graduate school, he served for two years with Jesuit Volunteers International teaching high school in the Marshall Islands, where he saw first-hand the devastating impacts of technologies (the effects of nuclear weapons testing, and sea-level rise from climate change due to fossil fuels) on their people and their nation.

Green has been published, interviewed by, or mentioned in media including America, Ars Technica, The Atlantic, Axios, BigThink, CNN.com, FiveThirtyEight, Forbes.com, Fortune.com, KCBS, Marketwatch, New York Magazine Intelligencer, The New York Times, NPR, Nature, OSV, Scientific American, Smithsonian.com, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED Magazine.