Executive Director, Krantz Institute

Boston College Introduction

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,654 full-time undergraduates and 5,072 graduate and professional students. Ranked 37 among national universities, Boston College has 923 full-time and 1,336 FTE faculty, 2,822 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.9 billion.

Founded in 1863, Boston College is one of the 27 Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States. It is dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the use of knowledge in service to the common good. The University’s mission is rooted in a world view that values rigorous intellectual development and ethical formation.

Institutional Overview & Mission Alignment.

Boston College is embarking on a transformative initiative with the establishment of the Krantz Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Humanity. Enabled by a major gift from University Trustee Jason Krantz '95, P'23, and Keely (Fitzgerald) Krantz '95, P'23, the Institute will leverage BC’s formative and ethical strengths as a Jesuit, Catholic university to explore the opportunities, implications, and pitfalls of artificial intelligence.

Inspired by Pope Leo’s recently published encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which underscores education’s role in an era of rapid technological change, the Institute brings BC’s rich heritage of thoughtful reflection and discernment into a lively engagement with the promise and perils of a particularly transformative technology. The institute aims to inform emerging discussion of AI and to instill in students the judgment, wisdom, and critical thinking necessary to become moral leaders and creators of AI, ensuring that humanistic values and ethics remain foundational to the world’s evolving approach to AI.

Reporting to the Provost and Dean of Faculties, the Executive Director will build an Institute that will position Boston College as a national and global leader in teaching, research, and discussion about how to best leverage artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, as well as to scale foundational and applied AI initiatives across all nine of the schools and colleges at Boston College.

Working closely with faculty colleagues, academic leadership, and external partners, the successful candidate will build this early-stage platform into a sustainable, world-class hub of institutional excellence.

The Executive Director will be charged with driving three primary goals:

The Executive Director will develop, operationalize, and guide the institute's core strategic pillars to catalyze campus engagement with AI and to establish a clear framework for investment and prioritization with an ambition to inform national and global conversations about AI:

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