Thomas M. Powers

ORCID: 0000-0002-2484-4721
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Research Areas
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Nanotechnology research and applications
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • German Social Sciences and History
  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • Media, Religion, Digital Communication
  • Classical Studies and Legal History
  • Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
  • Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
  • Data Analysis and Archiving

University of Delaware
2008-2024

Biotechnology Institute
2024

Ethics and Public Policy Center
2018

University of Virginia
2003-2011

Santa Clara University
1999

We develop a taxonomy that categorizes HRI failure types and their impact on trust to structure the broad range of knowledge contributions. further identify research gaps in order support fellow researchers development trustworthy robots. Studying repair has only recently been given more interest we propose potential violations suitable strategies during interaction scenarios. The distinguishes four types: Design, System, Expectation, User failures outlines mitigation strategies. Based these...

10.1145/3319502.3374793 article EN 2020-03-07

A rule-based ethical theory is a good candidate for the practical reasoning of machine ethics because it generates duties or rules action, and are computationally tractable. Among principle- theories, first formulation Kant's categorical imperative offers formalizable procedure. We explore version along lines Kantian formalist ethics, both to suggest what computational structures such view would require see challenges remain its successful implementation. In reformulating Kant purposes we...

10.1109/mis.2006.77 article EN IEEE Intelligent Systems 2006-07-01

10.1023/b:etin.0000017737.56971.20 article EN Ethics and Information Technology 2003-01-01

10.1007/s11245-012-9149-4 article EN Topoi 2013-01-12

This chapter discusses several challenges for doing the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). The fall into five major categories: conceptual ambiguities within philosophy and AI scholarship; estimation risks; implementing machine ethics; epistemic issues scientific explanation prediction in what can be called computational data science (CDS), which includes “big data” science; oppositional versus systemic approaches. then argues that these ethical problems are not likely to yield “common...

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.2 preprint EN 2020-07-09

Approaches to programming ethical behavior for computer systems face challenges that are both technical and philosophical in nature. In response, an incrementalist account of machine ethics is developed: a successive adaptation programmed constraints new, morally relevant abilities computers. This approach allows progress under conditions limited knowledge engineering suggests reasons we can circumvent broader questions about intelligence autonomy.

10.1109/mra.2010.940152 article EN IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 2011-03-01

The impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely anticipated to be socially, economically, and ethically significant. A reliable assessment the harms benefits their large-scale deployment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. To that end, we employed Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis make such an assessment. We obtained opinions from 19 disciplinary experts assess significance 13 potential eight might arise under four deployments schemes. Specifically, considered: (1) status quo, i.e., no...

10.1371/journal.pone.0256224 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2021-08-13

In this paper we provide a proof of principle new method for addressing the ethics autonomous vehicles (AVs), <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Data-Theories Method</i> , in which vehicle crash data is combined with philosophical ethical theory to guide action AV algorithm design. We use model three scenarios an exposed risk on road, and determine possible actions AV. then examine how different perspectives agent partiality, or...

10.1109/tits.2021.3072792 article EN publisher-specific-oa IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2021-05-25

One of the major issues with technology in general, and nanotechnology particular, is that it could exacerbate divide between developed developing nations. If benefits research do not flow beyond national geographical borders traditional bastions R&D, these will be equally globally available. The consequence technological becomes wider at expense mutual reliance. As much as nations need to rethink strategy policy bring products market goal global prosperity, cannot afford simply wait for...

10.1088/1757-899x/92/1/012001 article EN IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering 2015-10-12

Abstract In 2014 an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University Delaware began a 5-year project with Online Ethics Center (OEC) to gather international perspectives on science and engineering ethics, broadly construed. We seek instructional scholarly materials institutions individual foreign scholars teachers. This paper describes rationale outlines theoretical foundation this project. The central issue be addressed here is: if there is indeed benefit "internationalization" how...

10.18260/1-2--27271 article EN 2024-02-02

10.1166/jne.2013.1045 article EN Journal of Nano Education 2013-10-19

10.2307/1138944 article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951) 1948-01-01

For the reader, this arrangement provides plenty of actual or near-term scenarios and applications pervasive (some would say ‘ubiquitous’) information communication technology (PICT), before moral rules principles that could be applied to them are directly considered. But make no mistake about it: consideration normative issues is abundant in earlier chapters, a real strength book. The less philosophically-inclined reader easily benefit from applications, yet reject later theoretical...

10.5840/jpsl20141425 article EN The Journal of Philosophy Science & Law 2014-01-01
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