Steven Umbrello

Steven Umbrello is Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a research fellow at the University of Turin. He is also an associate researcher at the Collège des Bernardins, where he works on digital humanism, and was previously a research fellow at the Delft University of Technology.

He is the editor of several international academic journals, including the International Journal of Technoethics, the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

His research focuses on Value Sensitive Design (VSD) and the theology of Bernard Lonergan, exploring their potential application to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. He is interested in how philosophical and theological frameworks can inform the design and governance of technology in ways that serve human dignity and the common good.