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 糖心破解版 and teaches AI ethics and space ethics in 糖心破解版’s Graduate School of Engineering. His work focuses on AI and ethics, technology ethics in corporations, the ethics of space exploration and use, the ethics of technological manipulation of humans, 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 (2021), co-author of Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap (The ITEC Handbook) (2023), co-author of the Ethics in Technology Practice (2018) corporate technology ethics resources, contributing author to (2023), co-editor of the book (2022), and co-editor of a special issue of the (2022).
Green is or has been a contributor or lead author/editor on three books with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, a lead contributor on three World Economic Forum case studies on ethical practices at , , and , and has worked with the Partnership on AI, and technology companies ranging from startups to the largest. He also supervises undergraduate fellowships at Santa Clara in technology ethics and environmental 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 in the Jesuit Volunteers International teaching high school in the Marshall Islands, where he saw first-hand the devastating impacts of unethically-used technologies (nuclear weapons and fossil fuels) on the people and their nation.
Green has been published, interviewed, 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, Scientific American, Smithsonian.com, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED Magazine.