John P. Sullins, (Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002) is a full professor of philosophy at Sonoma State University and the director of programing for the Sonoma State University Center for Ethics Law and Society (CELS). His specializations are: AI Ethics, philosophy of technology, philosophical issues of artificial intelligence/robotics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, engineering ethics, and computer ethics.

He is the Coauthor of the book Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence: The History and Legacy of the AI Wars. He also has numerous publications on the ethics of autonomous weapons systems, self-driving cars, personal robotics, affective robotics, malware ethics, and the philosophy and ethics of information technologies as well as the design of autonomous ethical agents.

He is involved in occasional industry and government consultation involving ethical practices in technology design. He was the coauthor of IEEE Courses on Ethics and AI and Autonomous Systems as well as chairing the committee on Affective Computing for the IEEE “Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being With Autonomous and Intelligent Systems” and co-chairs the IEEE Standards Committee P7008 - Standard for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems. He also served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society for Philosophy and Technology for twenty-three years.

Dr. Sullins is the recipient of the 2011 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, which was awarded by the International Association for Computers and Philosophy.