Dr. Steven Umbrello

Steven Umbrello is the 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, such as the International Journal of Technoethics, the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was formerly a Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellow at Eurac Research, where he worked on the philosophy, religion, and society program, and a researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, where he worked on the ethics of generative AI.

He is the author of several books, including "Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies" (Polity, 2024), "Can AI Ever Be Human?: Consciousness Explored" (CUA, 2026), and "Mediated by Meaning: Consciousness and Conversion in the Thought of Jordan Peterson" (Pickwick, 2026). He also has a forthcoming book with Ascension exploring artificial intelligence and the Catholic perspective on technology, ethics, and the human person.