Media

Video Lectures/Debates/Interviews

• 'Symbols and their Consequences in the Sex Robot Debates' - TEDxWHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany, 4th October 2017. 

• 'Are we ready for robot relationships?' - British Academy Debates, De Monfort University, 6th February 2017

• 'The Algorithmic Self in Love' - Algorithmic Self Workshop, NUI Galway, 27th January 2017

• 'Why the Algorithmic Self?' - Algorithmic Self Workshop, NUI Galway, 27th January 2017

• 'The Ethics and Law of Self-Driving Cars' - Interview on TRT Insight, 24th July 2016

• 'Exploitation, Commodification and Harm: The Ethics of Commercial Surrogacy', NUI Galway, 12th March 2016

Podcast Interviews

• 'Robots and Retribution' - Interview with David Edmonds for Philosophy 24/7

• 'John Danaher on Algocracy and Transhumanism’ - Interview about my research project. Singularity Bros Podcast, Episode 54

• 'Algocracy’ - Interview about my research project. Robot Overlordz Podcast, Episode 284 

• 'Algocracy: Opportunities and Risks’ - Interview with Adam Ford about my algocracy research project in 2 parts.

• 'Finding meaning in an automated world’ - an interview about work and life in the face of increased automation. Powerful Nonsense Podcast, Episode 95

• 'Is High-Tech turning us into the Borg?’ - an interview about the possible ways in which technology is leading to the creation of less human, more hivemind-like societies. The Social Network Show

• 'The Sofalarity and the Future of Work’ - interview about technological unemployment and the future of work. Robot Overlordz Podcast Episode 237 

• 'Does life have meaning in a world without work?’ - interview about the meaning of life in a postwork world. Review the Future Podcast. Episode 68 

• 'Superintelligence' - A long video interview with Adam Ford about AI Risk, Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence and some of my criticisms thereof.

• 'The Ethics of Moral Enhancement’ - an interview about moral enhancement and extended mind hypothesis on the Smart Drugs Smarts podcast. 

• 'Sex Machina’ - an interview about the social, legal and ethical implications of sex robots. Robot Overlordz Podcast. Episode 163.

• 'Enhanced!’ - an interview about neuroenhancement and technological unemployment. Robot Overlordz Podcast. Episode 150.

• ‘Will the future be ruled by algorithm?’ - an interview about the threat of algocracy. Review the Future Podcast. Episode 42.

• ‘The Ethics of Human Enhancement’ - interview with Dan Fagella about, well, about the ethics of human enhancement.

News Articles

• 'If Data is the New Oil, Are Tech Companies Robbing Us Blind?' by Luke Dormehl for Digital Trends

• 'I Alexa, Should we give artificial intelligence human rights?' by Luke Dormehl for Digital Trends

• 'Disrupting the World's Oldest Profession' - Interviewed by Daniel Davies for a piece in Factor Magazine.

• ‘Why new technology is draining meaning from your job’ - Interviewed by Joe Humphreys for a feature in the Irish Times Weekend Edition, 4th February 2017

• Unthinkable: Is it unethical to take brain stimulants?’, Interview Joe Humphreys from the Irish Times, January 12th 2016 

• Interview with FutureZone about Technological Unemployment and Meaning in Life

• Feature article on reason.com about my paper ‘The Threat of Algocracy’ - ‘Welcoming Our New Algorithmic Overlords?’ by Ronald Bailey

• Interview on quartz.com for a piece about robot rights and responsibilities

• Interview on TheAtlantic.com for a piece about a world without work - ‘Would a Work-free World be So Bad?’ June 28th 2016, The Atlantic 

• Interview with The Metro for a piece about robot sex workers. The piece, unfortunately, has a misleading title - ‘Sex robot brothels coming to a town near you’ Dimtry Belyaev, The Metro September 1st 2016

• Interview with VICE: Motherboard about my work on technological unemployment and the meaning of life - ‘What if the Robot Utopia Leads to an Existential Crisis for Humans’ Keith Wagstaff, VICE: Motherboard 25 April 2016

• Fast Company - "THE TOP JOBS IN 10 YEARS MIGHT NOT BE WHAT YOU EXPECT" - includes some quotes from me about the future of work. Just to be clear my suggestions were made with a particular theory of employment and employability in mind, which was unfortunately left out of the final version of the article. 

• Future of Sex - "Should we Criminalize Robotic Rape and Child Sex Robots?" interview with me about my article addressing this question.

• Business Insider - "This Law School Professor Thinks that Robots May Lead to an Increase in Prostitution?" - a summary of my article on sex work and technological unemployment. I should not, of course, be referred to as a "professor", at least not under the UK/Irish academic system.

• Above the Law - "Would You Believe Your Law School Tuition Pays for Sexbot Research" - A somewhat negative article, again dealing with my article on sex work and technological unemployment, which disagrees with the notion that students' tuition fees should pay for research into this topic. But as the author notes, the tuition situation is not as bad in my neck of the woods as it is in the US.

• Future of Sex - "Will Sex Robots Actually Replace Human Sex Workers?" - This one includes extracts from an interview with me.

• VICE: Motherboard - "Prostitution Will Survive the Rise of the Robots" - Another interview with me, about my article on sex work and technological unemployment, this time via email. This was republished and translated onto the French, German and Romanian versions of VICE.

• Pando Daily - "Academics Dream of Electric Sex Workers" - A slightly negative, or at least tongue-in-cheek take on the topic of sex work and technological unemployment. Based partly on an interview with me, but featuring a number of inaccuracies (e.g. it's not true to say that the majority of research on this is conducted by "stodgy British scholars". We may be stodgy, but as far as I am aware most of us aren't British)

• Pando Daily - "Pew Report: "Sex Robots will become Commonplace" - As the name suggests, this is actually a report on research done by Pew into robotics and the workplace. Nevertheless, it does briefly mention my article on sex work and technological unemployment.

• Ekstra Bladet - "Sexrobotter tager ludernes arbejde" - Definitely NSFW! I have no idea what this says, but it is about my article on sex work and technological unemployment. Apparently, Ekstra Bladet is a Danish tabloid, and one of the more popular Danish news websites.