Executive Director for Krantz Institute Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Humanity
Listed on 2026-09-26
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Education / Teaching
AI Business & Operations, University Professor, Academic -
Management
AI Business & Operations
Executive Director Krantz Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Humanity at Boston College Institutional Overview & Mission Alignment
Boston College is embarking on a transformative initiative withthe establishment of the Krantz Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Humanity
. Enabled by a majorgift from University Trustee Jason Krantz '95, P'23, and Keely(Fitzgerald) Krantz '95, P'23, the Institute will leverage BC’sformative and ethical strengths as a Jesuit, Catholic university toexplore the opportunities, implications, and pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
Inspired by Pope Leo’s recently published encyclical,Magnifica Humanitas, which underscores education’s roleinan era of rapid technological change, the Institute brings BC’srich heritage of thoughtful reflection and discernment into alively engagement with the promise and perils of a particularlytransformative technology. The institute aims to inform emergingdiscussion of AI and to instill in students the judgment, wisdom,and critical thinking necessary to become moral leaders andcreators of AI, ensuring that humanistic values and ethics remainfoundational to the world's evolving approach to AI.
Position Overview & Strategic DirectionReporting to the Provost and Dean of Faculties, the Executive Director will build an Institute that will position Boston Collegeas a national and global leader in teaching, research, anddiscussion about the opportunities and implications of artificial intelligence as well as to scale foundational and applied AI initiatives across all nine of the schools and colleges king closely with faculty colleagues, academic leadership, and external partners, the successful candidate willbuild this early-stage platform into a sustainable, world-class hubof institutional excellence.
The Executive Director will be charged with driving threeprimary goals:
The Executive Director will partner with academics across and beyondcampus to sustain a lively and ongoing conversation about AI,ethics, and humanity.
The Executive Director will develop, operationalize, and guidethe 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:
- AI & Human Flourishing: Exploring AI inlight of fundamental questions about ethics and human dignity, and drawing on the University’s distinctive strengths in the humanities.
- AI & Democracy: Examining AI’s variouseffects on government and public life, in the United States andbeyond.
- AI & the Economy: Guiding organizations onhow to responsibly leverage AI and engaging with industry leaders(including partnering with the Carroll School of Management and the
2027 Finance Conference). - AI & Health Care: Investigating how AI canimprove healthcare outcomes while recognizing emerging threats tohuman-centered care for the vulnerable.
- AI & Formative
Education:
Imagining new possibilities for BC’s distinctive approach to teaching and learning in the context of the AI…
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