Irish legal scholar and ethicist
John Danaher is an Irish legal scholar and philosopher specialized in the legal and ethical impacts of AI and emerging technologies on society and democracy.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] post-work societies .[ 5]
Danaher studied law atUniversity College Cork , where he received aBachelor of Civil Law in 2006. This was followed by aMaster of Laws in 2007 fromTrinity College Dublin , and a PhD after study at the College of Business and Law of University College Cork, in 2011. His PhD thesis was on the theories of criminal responsibility in light of scientific advances,[ 6] Irish Research Council scholar.[ 7]
Danaher became a lecturer atKeele University in 2011, where he stayed until 2014. He joinedUniversity of Galway in the same year, where he is currently asenior lecturer (associate professor) in the School of Law.[ 8]
Danaher is a fellow of theInstitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies .[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Danaher, John; McArthur, Neil, eds. (13 October 2017).Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications ISBN 978-0-262-34199-8 Danaher, John (24 September 2019).Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work doi :10.2307/j.ctvn5txpc .ISBN 978-0-674-98424-0 JSTOR j.ctvn5txpc . Zerilli, John; Danaher, John; Maclaurin, James; Gavaghan, Colin; Knott, Alistair; Liddicoat, Joy; Noorman, Merel E. (2021).A citizen's guide to artificial intelligence . Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.ISBN 978-0-262-04481-3 Danaher, John (14 February 2022), Véliz, Carissa (ed.),"Automation and the Future of Work" Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics , Oxford University Press, pp. 748– 768,doi :10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.013.37 ,ISBN 978-0-19-885781-5 , retrieved23 November 2025 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link )Danaher, John (10 May 2022), Vallor, Shannon (ed.),"Freedom in an Age of Algocracy" The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology , Oxford University Press, pp. 249– 272,doi :10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190851187.013.16 ,ISBN 978-0-19-085118-7 , retrieved23 November 2025 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link )^ "Algorithmic Governance and its Discontents" .State Legitimacy . 20 March 2016.^ Danaher, John (2020)."Welcoming Robots into the Moral Circle: A Defence of Ethical Behaviourism" Science and Engineering Ethics .26 (4):2023– 2049.doi :10.1007/s11948-019-00119-x .ISSN 1353-3452 .PMID 31222612 . ^ Smids, Jilles (2020)."Danaher's Ethical Behaviourism: An Adequate Guide to Assessing the Moral Status of a Robot?" .Science and Engineering Ethics .26 (5):2849– 2866.doi :10.1007/s11948-020-00230-4 .ISSN 1353-3452 .PMC 7550363 PMID 32557007 . ^ Danaher, John."The Case for Outsourcing Morality to AI" .Wired .ISSN 1059-1028 . ^ Tigard, Daniel W. (2020)."Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work John Danaher, 2019, Harvard University Press" Journal of Applied Philosophy .37 (4):684– 687.doi :10.1111/japp.12435 .ISSN 0264-3758 . ^ Danaher, John (2011).Theories of criminal responsibility in light of scientific advance: the problem of competing frameworks and enhanced control ^ Danaher, John (2010). Kelly, Alan; Allen, Graham; Murphy, Orla; Nelson, Michelle (eds.)." .The Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork (2010):43– 46.doi :10.33178/boolean.2010.10 ^ "John Danaher | AIRES" .The AIRES .^ Umbrello, Steven."Fellows" .IEET . Retrieved25 November 2025 . ^ McArthur, Neil; Danaher, John (3 October 2017)."How sex robots could help with the nuts and bolts of relationships" .The Guardian .ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved25 November 2025 . ^ "Programmed to love: is a human-robot relationship wrong? | Aeon Essays" .aeon.co .^ "The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology - Author Biographies" . 2020.
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