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Steven Umbrello

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  • Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences
  • Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione
  • Biotechnology for Neuroscience
  • Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia
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    Comunicazione e Culture dei media
  • Dottorato in Filosofia

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    Selected research products

    Books

    1. Umbrello, Steven, 2024. Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies, Cambridge, UK: Polity. ISBN: 978-1-509-56404-0
    2. Umbrello, Steven, 2023. Oggetti Buoni. Come costruire una tecnologia sensibile ai valori, Fandango: Rome. ISBN 978-88-6044-902-3 [Italian]
    3. Umbrello, Steven, 2022. Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots, Trivent Publishing: Budapest. ISBN 978-615-6405-36-4

    Edited Volumes 

    1. Calì, Cristiano; Umbrello, Steven; Hughes, James J. (eds.) 2025. Theology of Human Enhancement in Western Traditions, De Gruyter.

    2. Umbrello, Steven; Hughes, James J.; Calì, Cristiano, (eds.) 2024. The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement, De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-111-24255-2 

    3. Dennis, Matthew; Ishmaev, Georgy; Umbrello, Steven; van den Hoven, Jeroen, (eds.) 2022. Values for a Post-Pandemic Future, Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-08423-2

    Translations

    1. White, Thomas Joseph, n.d. La luce di Christo, (Umbrello, Steven, Trad.) (Libro originalmente pubblicato in 2017). [dall’inglese]. In corso di stampa. [Italiano]

    2. Lonergan, Bernard J. F., n.d. Saggi. Terza collezione, (Pampaloni, Massimo; Umbrello, Steven, trad.) Roma: Città Nuova Editrice. (Libro originalmente pubblicato in 2017), [dall’inglese]. In corso di stampa. [Italiano]

    3. Umbrello, Steven, 2025. Il futuro della tecnologia. Progettazione etica e innovazione, (S. Umbrello, Trad.) Roma: tab edizioni. (Libro originalmente pubblicato in 2024), [dall’inglese]. ISBN: 979-12-5669-094-7 [Italiano]

    4. Liddy, Richard M., 2024. Sorprendenti stranezze. Introduzione a Insight di Lonergan, (S. Umbrello, Trad.). Roma: Città Nuova Editrice. (Libro originalmente pubblicato in 2006). [dall’inglese]. ISBN: 978-88-311-3554-2 [Italiano]

    5. Galletti, Matteo, 2024. The Morality Pill: Ethics and Moral Enhancement, (S. Umbrello, Trad.) Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Libro originalmente pubblicato in 2022) [dall’italiano]. ISBN 978-615-6696-38-0 [Inglese]

    6. Balistreri, Maurizio, 2022. “Sex Robots: Love in the Age of Machines,” (S. Umbrello, Trans.) Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Original work published 2018), [dall'Italiano]. ISBN 978-615-6405-40-1 [Inglese]

    7. Caffo, Leonardo, 2022. “The Contemporary Posthuman,” (S. Umbrello, Trans.), Bradford, UK: Ethics International Press. (Original work published 2017), [dall'Italiano]. ISBN 978-1-80441-010-3 [Inglese]

    Journal Articles

    1. Umbrello, Steven, 2025. “Bernard Lonergan and a Nouvelle théologie for Artificial Intelligence,” The Lonergan Review, forthcoming. [Inglese]

    2. Umbrello Steven; O’Hara, Paul, 2024. “The ‘Common Good’ in a Genetically-Modified Future: Drawing on Lonergan's Critical Realism in Reproductive Ethics,” Paradigmi, Vol. 42, No. 3/2024, 489-509. [Inglese] (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    3. Umbrello, Steven; Natale, Simone, 2024. “Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI,” International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 16, No. 11-12, 2223 – 2241. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-024-01184-4 [Inglese] (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    4. Umbrello, Steven; Balistreri, Maurizio, 2024. “Human Enhancement and Reproductive Ethics on Generation Ships,” Argumenta, Vol. 10, No. 1, 453-467. DOI: 10.14275/2465-2334/20230.umb [Inglese](Classe A 11/C3)

    5. Umbrello, Steven; Seskir, Zeki C.; Vermaas, Pieter E., 2024. “Communities of Quantum Technologies: Stakeholder Identification, Legitimation, and Interaction,” International Journal of Quantum Information. DOI: 10.1142/S0219749924500126 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    6. Umbrello, Steven, 2024. “Ethics of Quantum Technologies: A Scoping Review,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 37, No. 2. DOI: 10.5840/ijap202448201 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    7. Balistreri, Maurizio; Umbrello, Steven, 2024. “The Ethics of Space Travelling and Extraterrestrial Colonization,” Ragion Pratica, Vol. 62, (June 2024), 155-169. (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    8. Umbrello, Steven, 2024. “Dalla Soggettività all’Oggettività: La Filosofia di Bernard Lonergan come Fondamento per il Design Sensibile ai Valori,” Archivio teologico torinese, Vol. 1, (2024), 161-171.

    9. Striano, Francesco; Serrano, Gemma; Umbrello, Steven, 2024. “Digital Humanism as a Bottom-Up Ethics,” Journal of Responsible Technology, Special Issue: “Frontiers in Digital Humanism,” Vol. 17, (June), 100082. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100082 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    10. Umbrello, Steven; Wood, Nathan G., 2023. “Humans versus Robots in Space Exploration and Colonization: A Contextualized Approach,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 36, No. 2. (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    11. Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “From Subjectivity to Objectivity: Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy as a Grounding for Value Sensitive Design,” Scienza & Filosofia, Numero Speciale: “Etica applicata o Etiche applicate? Pluralismo disciplinare e centralità della scienza,” Vol. 29, 36–44.

    12. Umbrello, Steven; Bernstein, Michael J.; Vermaas, Pieter E.; Resseguir, Anaïs; Gonzalez, Gustavo; Porcari, Andrea; Grinbaum, Alexei; Adomaitis, Laurynas, 2023. “From speculation to reality: enhancing anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies (ATE) in practice,” Technology in Society, Vol. 74, 191225. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325

    13. Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Miglioramento e Potenziamento degli Operatori Sanitari attraverso la Progettazione,” NEU, Vol. 42, No. 2, 53-59. [Italian]

    14. Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Sociotechnical Infrastructures of Dominion in Stefan L. Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs,” Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. XXV, No. 1, 336-351.  (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    15. Balistreri, Maurizio; Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Modifying the environment or human nature? What is the right choice for space travel and Mars colonisation?” Nanoethics, Vol. 17, 5. DOI: 10.1007/s11569-023-00440-7(CLASSE A 11/C3)

    16. Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Emotions and Automation in a High-Tech Workplace: A Commentary,” Philosophy & Technology, Vol. 36, 12. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00615-w [Inglese] (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    17. Seskir, Zeki C.; Umbrello, Steven; Coenen, Christopher; Vermaas, Pieter E., 2023. “Democratization of Quantum Technologies,” Quantum Science and Technology, Vol 8, 024005. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/acb6ae

    18. Allahabadi, Himanshi; Amann, Julia; Balot, Isabelle [and 32 others, including Umbrello, Steven], 2022. Assessing Trustworthy AI in times of COVID-19. Deep Learning for predicting a multi-regional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, Special Issue: “After Covid-19: Crises, Ethics, and Socio-Technical Change,” Vol. 3, No. 4, 272–289. DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114 

    19. Balistreri, Maurizio; Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “Space travel does not constitute a condition of moral exceptionality. That which obtains in space obtains also on Earth!,” Medicina e Morale, Vol. 71, No. 3, 311–321. (Classe A 11/C3)

    20. Balistreri, Maurizio; Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “Should the colonisation of space be based on reproduction? Critical considerations on the choice of having a child in space,” Journal of Responsible Technology. Vol. 11, (October), 100040. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100040 (Classe A 11/C3)

    21. Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “The Role of Engineers in Harmonising Human Values for AI Systems Design,” Journal of Responsible Technology, Vol. 10, (July), 100031. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100031 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    22. Umbrello, Steven; Yampolskiy, Roman V., 2022. “Designing AI for Explainability and Verifiability: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Avoid Artificial Stupidity in Autonomous Vehicles,” International Journal of Social Robotics. Vol. 14, No. 2, 313-322. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-021-00790-w (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    23. Capasso, Marianna, Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “Responsible Nudging for Social Good: New Healthcare Skills for AI-Driven Digital Personal Assistants,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 11–22. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-021-10062-z (CLASSE A 11/C3) 

    24. Brooks, Laurence; Cannizzaro, Sara; Umbrello, Steven; Bernstein, Michael J.; Richardson, Kathleen, 2022. “Ethics of Climate Engineering: Don’t forget technology has an ethical aspect too,” International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 63, 102449. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102449

    25.  Ivanov, Stanislav; Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “The ethics of artificial intelligence and robotisation in tourism and hospitality – a conceptual framework and research agenda,” Journal of Smart Tourism, Vol. 1, No. 4, 9–18. DOI: 10.52255/smarttourism.2021.1.4.3

    26. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. "Coupling Levels of Abstraction in Understanding Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapons: A Two-Tiered Approach," Ethics and Information Technology. Vol. 23, No. 3, 455-464. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-021-09588-w (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    27. Umbrello, Steven; Capasso, Marianna; Balistreri, Maurizio; Pirni, Alberto; Merenda, Federica, 2021. “Value Sensitive Design to Achieve the UN SDGs with AI: A Case of Elderly Care Robots,” Minds and Machines, Special Issue: “Social Robots: Ethical and Anthropological Issues,” Vol. 31, No. 3, 395–419. DOI: 10.1007/s11023-021-09561-y (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    28. Umbrello, Steven; van de Poel, Ibo, 2021. "Mapping Value Sensitive Design onto AI for Social Good Principles," AI and Ethics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 283-296. DOI: 10.1007/s43681-021-00038-3

    29. Zicari, Roberto V.; Ahmed, Sheraz; Amann, Julia; [and 32 others including Umbrello, Steven], 2021. “Co-design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare. Best Practice: Deep Learning based Skin Lesion Classifier,” Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Special Issue: “Human and Artificial Collaboration for Medical Best Practices,” Vol. 3, No. 688152. DOI: 10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152

    30. Pirni, Alberto; Balistreri, Maurizio; Capasso, Marianna; Umbrello, Steven; Merenda, Federica, 2021. “Robot Care Ethics, between vulnerability and autonomy: Coupling Principles and Practices in Autonomous Systems for Care,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Special Issue: “Responsible Robotics: Identifying and Addressing Issues of Ethics, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Privacy and Employment,” Vol. 8, No. 654298. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.654298 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    31. Umbrello, Steven; Wood, Nathan Gabriel, 2021. “Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Contextual Nature of Hors de Combat Status,” Information, Special issue: “Meaningful Human Control and Autonomous Weapons Systems: Ethics, Design, and Responsible Innovation,” Vol. 12, No.5, 216. DOI: 10.3390/info12050216 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    32. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “The Ecological Turn in Design: Adopting a Posthumanist Ethics to Inform Value Sensitive Design,” Philosophies. Vol. 6, No. 1, 29. DOI: 10.3390/philosophies6020029

    33. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Meaningful Human Control over Smart Home Systems: A Value Sensitive Design Approach," HUMANA. MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, Special Issue: "Living with Artificial Intelligence. An Analysis of Moral and Philosophical Implications in our Everyday Life," Vol. 13, No. 37, 40-65. (Classe A 11/C3)

    34. Longo, Francesco; Padovano, Antonio; Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Value-oriented and ethical technology engineering in Industry 5.0: a human-centric perspective for the design of the Factory of the Future," Applied Sciences, Special Issue: "Smart Manufacturing Systems for Industry 5.0: Challenges and Opportunities," Vol. 10, No. 12, 4182. DOI: 10.3390/app10124182

    35. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Imaginative Value Sensitive Design: Using Moral Imagination Theory to Inform Responsible Technology Design," Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 2, 575-595. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-019-00104-4 (Classe A 11/C3)

    36. Umbrello, Steven, Torres, Phil and Angelo F. De Bellis, 2020. "The Future of War: The Ethical Potential of Leaving War to Lethal Autonomous Weapons." AI & Society, Vol. 35, No. 1, 273-282. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-019-00879-x (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    37. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Steps to Designing AI Empowered Nanotechnology: A Value Sensitive Design Approach," Delphi: Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, Vol. 2, No. 2, 79-83. DOI:10.21552/delphi/2019/2/6

    38. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Explorative Nanophilosophy as Tecnoscienza: An Italian Perspective on the Role of Speculation in Nanoindustry." TECNOSCIENZA: The Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1., 71-88.

    39. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Atomically Precise Manufacturing and Responsible Innovation: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Explorative Nanophilosophy," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), Vol. 10, No. 2, 1-21. DOI: 10.4018/IJT.2019070101 (Classe A 11/C3)

    40. Umbrello, Steven, Sorgner, Stefan L. 2019. "Nonconscious Cognitive Suffering: Considering Suffering Risks of Embodied Artificial Intelligence," Philosophies, Special Issue: "Frontiers of Embodied Artificial Intelligence: The (r-)evolution of the embodied approach in AI," Vol. 4, No. 2, (24). DOI: 10.3390/philosophies4020024

    41. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Designing War Machines with Values," Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 30-34. DOI: 10.21552/delphi/2019/1/7

    42. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Beneficial AI Coordination by means of a Value Sensitive Design Approach." Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Special Issue: "Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy," Vol.3, No.1, (5). DOI: 10.3390/bdcc3010005 

    43. Umbrello, Steven, Lombard, Jessica, 2018. "Silence of the Idols: Appropriating the Myth of Sisyphus for Posthumanist Discourses," Postmodern Openings, Vol. 9, No. 4, 98-121. DOI:10.18662/po/47.

    44. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "Posthumanism: A Fickle Philosophy?" Con Texte, Vol. 2, No. 1, 28-32. DOI: 10.28984/ct.v2i1.279

    45. Umbrello, Steven, Baum, Seth D., 2018. "Evaluating Future Nanotechnology: The Net Societal Impacts of Atomically Precise Manufacturing," Futures, (June) Vol. 100, 63-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2018.04.007

    46. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "The Moral Psychology of Value Sensitive Design: the Methodological Issues of Moral Intuitions for Responsible Innovation," Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol. 5, No. 2, 186-200. DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2018.1457401 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    Reply Papers

    1. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Combinatory and Complementary Practices of Values and Virtues in Design: A Reply to Reijers and Gordijn," Filosofia, Special Issue: "Philosophy and Robotics," No. 65, 107-121. DOI: 10.13135/2704-8195/5236 (CLASSE A 11/C3)

    Book Chapters

    1. Capasso, Marianna, Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Big Tech corporations and AI: A Social License to Operate and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Digital Age,” In Francesca Mazzi e Luciano Floridi (a cura di), The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, Cham: Springer, 231–249. ISBN 978-3-031-21146-1

    2. Umbrello, Steven; Gambelin, Olivia, 2023. “Agile as a Vehicle for Values: A Value Sensitive Design Toolkit,” In Albrecht Fritzsche e Andres Santa-Maria (a cura di), Rethinking Technology and Engineering: Dialogues across disciplines and geographies, Cham: Springer, 169–181. ISBN 978-3-031-25232-7

    3. Capasso, Marianna; Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Sustainable Climate Engineering Innovation and the Need for Accountability,” In Henrik Skaug Sætra (ed.), Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism, Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 35-52. ISBN 978-1-032-35056-1

    4. Capasso, Marianna, Umbrello, Steven, 2023. “Big Tech corporations and AI: A Social License to Operate and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Digital Age,” In Francesca Mazzi and Luciano Floridi (eds.), The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-21146-1

    5. Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “Accoppiare i livelli di astrazione nella comprensione del controllo umano delle armi autonome,” in Pierpaolo Marrone and Maurizio Balistreri (eds.), Utopie Dell’Automazione Completa. Milano – Udine: Mimesis Edizioni, 173–195. ISBN 978-8-857-59314-2 [Italian]

    6. Dennis, Matthew; Ishmaev, Georgy; Umbrello, Steven; van den Hoven, Jeroen, 2022. “Values for a Post-Pandemic Future,” in Matthew Dennis, Georgy Ishmaev, Steven Umbrello and Jeroen van den Hoven (eds.), Values for a Post-Pandemic Future, Cham: Springer, 1-19. ISBN 978-3-031-08423-2

    7. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “What do Trollies Teach Us About Responsible Innovation?” In Charles Tandy (ed.), Death And Anti-Death, Volume 19: One Year After Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020), Ann Arbor, MI: Ria University Press, 271-288. ISBN 978-1-934297-35-3

    8. Doorn, Neelke; Michelfelder, Diane P.; Barrella, Elise; Bristol, Terry; Dechesne, Francien; Fritzsche, Albrecht; Johnson, Gearold; Poznic, Michael; Robison, Wade; Sain, Barbara; Stone, Taylor; Rodriguez-Nikl, Tonatiuh; Umbrello, Steven; Vermaas, Pieter E.; Wilson, Richard L., 2021. "Reimagining the future of engineering," In Diane P. Michelfelder and Neelke Doorn (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 736-744. ISBN 9781138244955

    9. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. "AI Winter," In Philip Frana and Michael J. Klein (eds.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence: The Past, Present, and Future of AI, ABC-CLIO, 7-8. ISBN 9781440853265

    10. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. "Conceptualizing Policy in Value Sensitive Design: A Machine Ethics Approach," In Steven John Thompson (ed.), Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, IGI Global, 108-125. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4894-3.ch007, ISBN: 9781799848943

    11. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Beneficial Artificial Intelligence Coordination by means of a Value Sensitive Design Approach," In Roman Yampolskiy and Allison Duettmann (eds.), Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, MDPI, 162-174. Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Big Data and Cognitive Computing. ISBN 9783039218554

    12. Umbrello, Steven, De Bellis, Angelo F., 2018. "A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents," In Roman Yampolskiy (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security, New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 395-410. DOI: 10.1201/9781351251389, ISBN 9780815369820

    Conference Proceedings

    1. Umbrello, Steven, 2024. “Quantum Technologies in Industry 4.0: Navigating the Ethical Frontier with Value-Sensitive Design,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2023), Procedia Computer Science, forthcoming

    2. Vernim, Susanne; Bauer, Harald; Rauch, Erwin; Ziegler, Marianne Thejls; Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “A Value Sensitive Design Approach for Designing AI-Based Worker Assistance Systems in Manufacturing,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2021), Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 200, 505–516. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2022.01.248

    3. Friedman, Batya; Hendry, David; Umbrello, Steven; van den Hoven, Jeroen; Yoo, Daisy, 2020. "The Future of Value Sensitive Design," In Jorge Pelegrín Borondo, Mario Arias Oliva, Kiyoshi Murata, Ana María Lara Palma (eds.), Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference ETHICOMP 2020, Universidad de La Rioja, 217-220, ISBN: 978-84-09-20272-0

    4. Gazzaneo, Lucia; Padovano, Alessandro, and Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Designing Smart Operator 4.0 for Human Values: A Value Sensitive Design Approach," Proceedings of the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2019), Procedia Manufacturing, Vol. 42, 219-226. DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2020.02.073 

    Book Reviews

    1. Umbrello, Steven, 2022. “Should we Reset? A Review of Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret’s ‘COVID-19: The Great Reset’,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 56, No. 4, 693–700. DOI: 10.1007/s10790-021-09794-1 (CLASSE A 11/C3)
    2. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “Review of: Shikake: The Japanese Art of Shaping Behavior Through Design,” International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), Vol. 10, No. 2, 57–60.
    3. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 20, No. 1, 82-83. DOI: 10.1080/15027570.2021.1920686
    4. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. "Can Humans Dream of Electric Sheep?" Metascience, Vol. 30, No. 2, 267-271. DOI: 10.1007/s11016-021-00629-0 (CLASSE A 11/C3)
    5. Umbrello, Steven, 2021. “Reckoning with assessment: can we responsibly innovate?” Metascience, Vol. 30, No. 1, 41-23. DOI: 10.1007/s11016-021-00605-8 (CLASSE A 11/C3)
    6. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Nihilism and Technology," Prometheus, Vol. 36, No. 3, 289-290. DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.36.3.0289
    7. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Maurizio Balistreri, Sex robot. L’amore al tempo delle macchine," Filosofia, Special Issue: "Philosophy and Robotics," (2020) No. 65, 191-193. DOI: 10.13135/2704-8195/5245 (Classe A 11/C3)
    8. Umbrello, Steven, 2020. "Values, Imagination, and Praxis: Towards A Value Sensitive Future with Technology," Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 1, 495-499. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-019-00122-2 (Classe A 11/C3)
    9. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Fragile Umanità by Leonardo Caffo," Journal of Posthuman Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 105-112. DOI: 10.5325/jpoststud.3.1.0105
    10. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Book review: Being Ecological by Timothy Morton," Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 23, No. 1, 19-20.
    11. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Moving to a Posthuman Technosphere," Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol. 23, No. 1, 104-106. DOI: 10.5840/techne20192311
    12. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium: Challenges and Choices for Humankind," World Futures, Vol. 75, No. 4, 191-193. DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2018.149011
    13. Umbrello, Steven, 2019. "Costruire Futuri: Migrazioni, città, immaginazioni," Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 101-103. DOI: 10.6531/JFS.201812_23(2).0007
    14. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "A Theory of Everything?," Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, 184-186. DOI: 10.5130/csr.v24i1.6318
    15. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "Designing in Ethics" Prometheus, Vol. 35, No. 2, 160-161. DOI: 10.1080/08109028.2018.1486470
    16. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People," Journal of Critical Realism, Vol. 17, No. 1, 84-86. DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2018.1437878
    17. Umbrello, Steven, 2018. "Phil Torres’s Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks," Futures, Vol. 98, 90-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2018.02.007
    18. Umbrello, Steven, 2017. "The Rise of Realism," The International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, Vol. 9, No. 2, 63-66.

    Courses

    Research topics

    I currently serve as the Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (501c3 nonprofit, Boston, MA). I studied Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto (Hons. BA), Epistemology, Ethics and Mind at the University of Edinburgh (MSc) and Science and Technology Studies at York University (MA). I completed my Ph.D. in the ethics and design of AI at the Consorzio FINO. Currently I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin.

    Previously I served as a postdoctoral research fellow at TU Delft, a Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellow at Eurac Research, and a researcher at the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation.

    Additionally, I served as a junior associate at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute from 2013 to 2018 where my primary research and authorship was on atomically precise manufacturing (APM) and other nanotechnology. This research explores the extent and impacts that nanotechnology has on the environment, society as well as the military and surveillance.

    Currently, my main area of research revolves around Value Sensitive Design (VSD), its philosophical foundation as well as its potential application to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0. 

    Editorial Duties

    Current Roles

    Past Roles

    • Associate Editor – Science and Engineering Ethics, 2019 – 2021 (Rivista A 11/C3)
    • Guest Editor – International Journal of Technoethics, special issue on Engineering Ethics: Bridging the Theory-Practice Gap, 2020-2021 (Rivista A 11/C3)
    • Associate Editor – International Journal of Technoethics, 2018 - 2020 (Rivista A 11/C3)
    • Editorial Board Member – Delphi: Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, 2019 – 2020
    • Editorial Review Board Member – International Journal of Technoethics, 2017 – 2018 (Rivista A 11/C3)
    • Guest Editor – Between the Species: Journal of Philosophy and Animals, special issue on Animal Enhancement, 2018

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