Brian Taylor is a nationally experienced education systems builder whose career spans independent schools, urban charter-school development, school turnaround, student-access programs, philanthropy, leadership development, and institutional partnerships. He serves as Vice President, Strategic Alliances and National Development at the Artificial Intelligence Institute, where he helps build the K-12, university, philanthropic, civic, and strategic relationships required to expand responsible AI education nationally. Taylor's work in education began after a distinguished basketball career. A Princeton All-American, he served as captain and leading scorer of the 1971 U.S. Pan-American Games basketball team, and later played ten professional seasons in the ABA and NBA. He was named ABA Rookie of the Year, became a two-time ABA All-Star, and was the starting point guard on the New York Nets' 1974 and 1976 championship teams. After a torn Achilles tendon ended his playing career in 1982, he returned to Princeton and completed his degree. He then built a second career around education and access. Taylor spent ten years at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, working across admissions, teaching, coaching, and administration. He was a partner and principal with the Inner City Education Foundation, helping grow it from a single founding school into a network of fifteen Los Angeles charter schools serving South Los Angeles. As leader of View Park Prep, he helped build a culture of academic achievement; Princeton Athletics reports that the school earned the highest middle-school math test scores in LAUSD among nearly 100 schools. He later became Headmaster of Teleos Preparatory Academy in Phoenix after the school had cycled through five headmasters in four years, bringing experienced leadership and stability to a demanding turnaround environment. Since 2012, Taylor has also deepened his role with Family First Foundation, beginning as a guest speaker, then building the partnerships that brought Family First students into the Rose Bowl, the LA Clippers, and the Dodgers, before joining the board and later becoming Director of Sports and Education. He founded the Brian Taylor Leadership Institute and created SOAL U to give students access to leadership development, college exposure, mentorship, and transformative educational environments. His work reflects a consistent belief: access changes trajectories, and leaders have a responsibility to build the systems that make access possible. At the Artificial Intelligence Institute, Taylor is applying that same systems-building philosophy to one of education's defining challenges. He focuses on how schools and institutions can respond to AI before unhealthy habits become embedded - strengthening independent thought, verification, creativity, judgment, and ethical decision-making rather than allowing powerful technology to replace them. Taylor also brings a distinctive higher-education lens to the work. In 2026, Princeton ended a 133-year-old honor code, introducing exam proctors for the first time in the university's history, amid academic-integrity concerns that included generative AI. For Taylor, the lesson is larger than cheating: institutions built around long-standing assumptions about human behavior are now being forced to redesign themselves because AI is changing behavior. His national work asks what K-12 schools should build upstream before those behaviors become established downstream. His mission remains bigger than basketball: building educational systems, opening pathways, and helping the next generation reach what is possible while preserving the human capacities that make learning matter.