Artificial intelligence accelerates faster and impacts more of life than any creation ever birthed. Glenn’s focus is the integration of philosophy with AI practice and policy
For 31 years, Glenn has developed innovative approaches to the most difficult ethical issues in biotechnology and health. Best known as founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics, he is the author of three best-selling books about the effect of genetic technology on parenthood (The Perfect Baby), the power of genetic information (Beyond Genetics), and the future of bioethics (Bioethics for Beginners). His research has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in medical, scientific, legal and humanities journals and several edited books.
Today a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, his research on ethics and innovation began in 1995 at University of Pennsylvania where for a decade he was an Assistant Professor at Penn’s Center for Bioethics. At 37, he became the first John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics and founded the Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI). He was then given the John B. Francis Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics in 2009. In 2013 joined the University of New Haven Pompea College of Business where he also served as Deputy Provost.
Glenn received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Baylor, and both the Master of Arts and Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt, where he studied with John Lachs, Richard Zaner, and Jean Bethke Elshtain. He completed a doctoral fellowship in Harvard University’s Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology with Richard Lewontin, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Human Genome Project (NHGRI ELSI).