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 reproductive technology on parenthood (The Perfect Baby), the ethics of advanced gene therapy (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 career began in 1995 at University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor at Penn Center for Bioethics. At 37, he became a tenured full professor of medicine, the John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, and founded Alden March Bioethics Institute. In 2009, the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City recruited Glenn to the John B. Francis Chair, and in 2013, Glenn became a full professor of management in the University of New Haven Pompea College of Business, and its Deputy Provost and Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Effectiveness and Planning in 2019. In 2021, he became Professor of Health Sciences and interim Dean of Admissions at Salem College.
Glenn received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Baylor, and both Master of Arts and Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt. 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).