Thomas M. Powers

Department of Philosophy
University of Delaware

Director, Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy

Research

I work in several areas of the ethics of information technology, especially AI and machine ethics, and contribute to scholarship in philosophy and in engineering. More generally, my interests lie in the ethical, social, legal, and political impacts of emerging technologies.

Recent

• Key Personnel, NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (HAIC), University of Delaware, 2026–31
• “What is ‘meaningful human control’ in autonomous weapons systems?” IACAP 2026, University of Kansas, July 2026

Contact

• Office Harker Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Laboratory, 221 Academy Street, Room 471
• Mail Department of Philosophy, 24 Kent Way, Newark, DE 19716