Dr. John Danaher
John’s research interests are in the areas of philosophy, law, emerging technologies and the future of human society. He is the author of Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (Harvard University Press, 2019), the co-author of A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2021) and the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press 2017). He has published papers on the how technology transforms social morality, the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, the meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement, His work has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, VICE: Motherboard, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, Aeon, and The Philosophers’ Magazine.