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Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.  Neil is a specialist in the philosophy of human rights, philosophy and technology, sexual ethics, and research on alternative sexualities. He is the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press) and Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights (Oxford University Press).  He is particularly interested in the intersection of sex and technology and is the co-author of “The Rise of Digisexuality: Therapeutic Challenges and Possibilities" where the authors argue a new sexual identity is emerging: digisexuality. Digisexuals are people for whom technology is an integral part of their sexual identity, and who may not feel the need for human partners.

Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. To many, this is a depressing prognosis, an image of civilization replaced by its machines. But what if an automated future is something to be welcomed rather than feared? Work is a source of misery and oppression for most people, so shouldn't we do what we can to hasten its demise? In this episode of CwG, Gwen is joined by the philosopher John Danaher to talk about his book “Automation and Utopia.” John makes the case that the rise of automating technologies presents a utopian moment for humankind, providing both the motive and the means to build a better future. Book: https://www.amazon.com/Automation-Utopia-Human-Flourishing-without/dp/0674984242 --- Gwen Ngwenya is a South African politician, Head of Policy of the Democratic Alliance, and host of the podcast Conversations with Gwen. As a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance in the Fifth Parliament, she served on the Standing Committee on Finance. She has also served as COO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, Africa's largest classically liberal think tank. Twitter: https://twitter.com/GwenNgwenya --- John Danaher is a Senior Lecturer at NUI Galway. His research interests are in the areas of legal philosophy, 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) and the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press 2017). He has published many papers on different topics, including the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnDanaher Blog/Podcast: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/ --- Follow us on Social Media: YouTube: https://bit.ly/2u46Mdy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/discourse-za Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discourseza/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/discourseza  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discourseza/   Subscribe to the Discourse ZA Podcast: iTunes: https://apple.co/2V5ckEM Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2UILooX Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2vlBwaG RSS feed: https://bit.ly/2VwsTsy Intro Animation by Cath Theo - https://www.instagram.com/Cuz_Im_Cath/

Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite the fact that machines are everywhere, most of us are still working pretty hard. But maybe that’s about to change. Futurists like John Danaher believe that society is finally on the brink of making a transition to a world in which work would be optional, rather than mandatory — and he thinks that’s a very good thing. It will take some adjusting, personally as well as economically, but he envisions a future in which human creativity and artistic impulse can flourish in a world free of the demands of working for a living. We talk about what that would entail, whether it’s realistic, and what comes next.Support Mindscape on Patreon.John Danaher received an LLM degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from University College, Cork. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research is situated at the overlap of legal studies and philosophy, and frequently involves questions of technology, automation, and the future. He is the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, and author of the recent book Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work. He writes frequently for publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Irish Times, and is the host of his own podcast, Philosophical Disquisitions.Web site and blogNUI Galway web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsAmazon.com author pageTalk on The Algorithmic Self in LovePhilosophical Disquisitions podcastTwitter

Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, and the emergence of the much-publicized Campaign Against Sex Robots, there has been little academic research on the social, philosophical, moral, and legal implications of robot sex. Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), edited by Neil McArthur and John Danaher, fills the gap, offering perspectives from philosophy, psychology, religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Contributors discuss what a sex robot is, if they exist, why we should take the issue seriously, and what it means to “have sex” with a robot. They make the case for developing sex robots, arguing for their beneficial nature, and the case against it, on religious and moral grounds; they consider the subject from the robot's perspective, addressing such issues as consent and agency; and they ask whether it is possible for a human to form a mutually satisfying, loving relationship with a robot. Finally, they speculate about the future of human-robot sexual interaction, considering the social acceptability of sex robots and the possible effect on society. John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, and the emergence of the much-publicized Campaign Against Sex Robots, there has been little academic research on the social, philosophical, moral, and legal implications of robot sex. Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), edited by Neil McArthur and John Danaher, fills the gap, offering perspectives from philosophy, psychology, religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Contributors discuss what a sex robot is, if they exist, why we should take the issue seriously, and what it means to “have sex” with a robot. They make the case for developing sex robots, arguing for their beneficial nature, and the case against it, on religious and moral grounds; they consider the subject from the robot's perspective, addressing such issues as consent and agency; and they ask whether it is possible for a human to form a mutually satisfying, loving relationship with a robot. Finally, they speculate about the future of human-robot sexual interaction, considering the social acceptability of sex robots and the possible effect on society. John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, and the emergence of the much-publicized Campaign Against Sex Robots, there has been little academic research on the social, philosophical, moral, and legal implications of robot sex. Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), edited by Neil McArthur and John Danaher, fills the gap, offering perspectives from philosophy, psychology, religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Contributors discuss what a sex robot is, if they exist, why we should take the issue seriously, and what it means to “have sex” with a robot. They make the case for developing sex robots, arguing for their beneficial nature, and the case against it, on religious and moral grounds; they consider the subject from the robot's perspective, addressing such issues as consent and agency; and they ask whether it is possible for a human to form a mutually satisfying, loving relationship with a robot. Finally, they speculate about the future of human-robot sexual interaction, considering the social acceptability of sex robots and the possible effect on society. John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, and the emergence of the much-publicized Campaign Against Sex Robots, there has been little academic research on the social, philosophical, moral, and legal implications of robot sex. Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), edited by Neil McArthur and John Danaher, fills the gap, offering perspectives from philosophy, psychology, religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Contributors discuss what a sex robot is, if they exist, why we should take the issue seriously, and what it means to “have sex” with a robot. They make the case for developing sex robots, arguing for their beneficial nature, and the case against it, on religious and moral grounds; they consider the subject from the robot's perspective, addressing such issues as consent and agency; and they ask whether it is possible for a human to form a mutually satisfying, loving relationship with a robot. Finally, they speculate about the future of human-robot sexual interaction, considering the social acceptability of sex robots and the possible effect on society. John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, and the emergence of the much-publicized Campaign Against Sex Robots, there has been little academic research on the social, philosophical, moral, and legal implications of robot sex. Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017), edited by Neil McArthur and John Danaher, fills the gap, offering perspectives from philosophy, psychology, religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Contributors discuss what a sex robot is, if they exist, why we should take the issue seriously, and what it means to “have sex” with a robot. They make the case for developing sex robots, arguing for their beneficial nature, and the case against it, on religious and moral grounds; they consider the subject from the robot's perspective, addressing such issues as consent and agency; and they ask whether it is possible for a human to form a mutually satisfying, loving relationship with a robot. Finally, they speculate about the future of human-robot sexual interaction, considering the social acceptability of sex robots and the possible effect on society. John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1.  Are you creating the life you want?  Take this test and find out. This test will help you create the vision in 7 different areas of your life.   2.  Have you heard the term digisexuality?  Did you happen to read about the man in Japan who recently married an anime hologram, a ROBOT that he built himself?  Is disexuality emerging as a new sexual identity?    My guest today is Dr. Neil McArthur, Professor of philosophy at the University of Manitoba, Director of Project and Applied Ethics, filmmaker, author of the book David Hume's Political Theory and co-author of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications.  He has done extensive research on the new and emerging phenomenon,  whereby humans are forging intimate and sexual relationships with ROBOTS!    This is an interview that you will not want to miss! TO LIFE AND LOVE,  XXXBEATTY 

 In this episode I talk to Kate Devlin. Kate is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Kate's research is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology in order to understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live. Kate has become a driving force in the field of intimacy and technology, running the UK's first sex tech hackathon in 2016. She has also become the face of sex robots – quite literally in the case of one mis-captioned tabloid photograph. We talk about her recent, excellent book Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots, which covers the past, present and future of sex technology.You download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher (the RSS feed is here).Show Notes0:00 - Introduction2:08 - Why did Kate talk about sex robots in the House of Lords?3:01 - How did Kate become the face of sex robots?5:34 - Are sex robots really a thing? Should academics be researching them?11:10 - The important link between archaeology and sex technology15:00 - The myth of hysteria and the origin of the vibrator17:36 - What was the most interesting thing Kate learned while researching this book? (Ans: owners of sex dolls are not creepy isolationists)23:03 - Is there are moral panic about sex robots? And are we talking about robots or dolls?30:41 - What are the arguments made by defenders of the 'moral panic' view?38:05 - What could be the social benefits of sex robots? Do men and women want different things from sex tech?47:57 - Why is Kate so interested in 'non-anthropomorphic' sex robots?55:15 - Is the media fascination with this topic destructive or helpful?57:32 - What question does Kate get asked most often and what does she say in response?  Relevant LinksKate's WebpageKate's Academic HomepageTurned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate DevlinKate and I in conversation at the Virtual Futures Salon in London'A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of the Orgasm' by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg (on the myth that vibrators were used to treat hysteria)Laodamia - Owner of the world's first sex doll?'In Defence of Sex Machines: Why trying to ban sex robots is wrong?' by Kate'Sex robot molested at electronics festival' at Huffington Post'First tester made love to sex robot so furiously it actually broke' at Metro.co.ukThe 2nd London Sex Tech HackathonRobot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications edited by Danaher and McArthur #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Subscribe to the newsletter

In today’s episode, we discuss the future of sex robots. Inspired by the book Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, we consider various benefits and harms that sex robots might have on users, society, and even the robots themselves. Will sex robots be on balance a good thing or a bad thing? Will they provide […]

This week we chat with the philosopher and sociologist John Danaher about the book Robot Sex: Social & Ethical Implications, a fascinating collection of academic articles on our sexbot future he just co-edited with Neil McArthur. (John also runs the blog Philosophical Disquisitions, which has been an awesome resource for deep thinking online for over a decade.)https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robot-sexhttp://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.comhttp://thefutureofsex.netChances are good you’ve seen the “Don’t Date Robots!” public service announcement from the cartoon Futurama, and probably Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” music video. Maybe you’ve seen Her or Ex Machina or Spielberg’s AI. And let’s not forget the Femmebots in Austin Powers. But does any of this media, for or against, paint a realistic portrait of the impact of machines on human intimacy?Subscribe on Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • iHeart RadioJoin our Facebook Discussion Group!In this episode, John and I talk about:• “The cognitive niche” and what separates human beings from other species and (maybe) AI• How would a world of sexbots change dating and marriage?• The de-coupling of sex for intimacy and companionship and sex for reproduction• …and how sexbots might actually bring us BACK to a more naïve or primitive state in which we don’t regard sex and fertility as primarily associated• What happens if we can hack the brain to make anything an erogenous zone?• The radiating diversity of sexual strategies as we move into crazier transhuman terrain…• The breakdown of heteronormative society and the emergence of LGBTQ sexbots• Will sexbots make human sexwork more or less desirable?• Can sexbots help sexual deviants channel their socially unacceptable urges into more acceptable behaviors?• What about LOVING robots? Can we ever be convinced the love is mutual?• Is the question of robot free will moot because we don’t even have free will??• Is our dismissal of robot consciousness just like the earlier forms of dismissal of personhood in racism and sexism and speciesism?• Is robot sex a red herring?• Loving AI would not be compatible or sensible with the goals of transhumanists, who want perfect control over their environment…• And more!“As soon as we’ve been making things, we’ve been making things for sexual reasons. You can pretty much trace this throughout history: we get the first mechanical vibrators at pretty much the same time as the Industrial Revolution…the technology of sex has always gone hand in hand with other developments in technology.”“All the doubts and skepticism you could have about a relationship with a sufficiently sophisticated robot…you could have all the same metaphysical doubts and worries about a human partner.”STAY TUNED for next week's episode with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops Podcast! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode I talk to Neil McArthur about a book that he and I recently co-edited entitled Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017). Neil is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba where he also directs the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. This a free-ranging conversation. We talk about what got us interested in the topic of robot sex, our own arguments and ideas, some of the feedback we've received on the book, some of our favourite sexbot-related media, and where we think the future of the debate might go.You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher (the RSS feed is here).Show Notes0:00 - Introduction to Neil1:42 - How did Neil go from writing about David Hume to Robot Sex?5:15 - Why did I (John Danaher) get interested in this topic?6:49 - The astonishing media interest in robot sex8:58 - Why did we put together this book?11:05 - Neil's general outlook on the robot sex debate16:41 - Could sex robots address the problems of loneliness and isolation?19:46 - Why a passive and compliant sex robot might be good thing21:08 - Could sex robots enhance existing human relationships?25:53 - Sexual infidelity and the intermediate ontological status of sex robots31:23 - Ethical behaviourism and robots34:36 - My perspective on the robot sex debate37:32 - Some legitimate concerns about robot sex44:20 - Some of our favourite arguments or ideas from the book (acknowledging that all the contributions are excellent!)54:37 - Neil's booklaunch - some of the feedback from a lay audience58:25 - Where will the debate go in the future? Neil's thoughts on the rise of the digisexual1:02:54 - Our favourite fictional sex robots  Relevant linksRobot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (available on Amazon, BookDepository and from the Publisher)Neil's homepageMedia coverage of our bookThe Status Quo bias in applied ethicsThe Sex Robots are Coming: Seedy, sordid but mainly just sad' by Fiona SturgesOur Guardian op-ed on the potential upside of sex robotsRichard Herring's sex robot sketchesNeil's article on the rise of the digisexualNeil's one-man show on cryonics "Let Me Freeze Your Head!"  #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Subscribe to the newsletter

Its Freaky Freaky Friday!! During "Front Page News" we discussed about a documentary on "Robot Sex" so we opened up the phone lines to if any of our listeners think getting freaky with a robot is considered cheating? Moreover, Cam'Ron mentioned that the reason why him and his girlfriend Juju broke up was because of social media, so we opened up the phone lines to hear stories about social media break ups. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to two people one for the guest for lighting up a crack pipe at a Thanksgiving dinner without asking, and for the host because she ended up killing her guest because he did ask and he did not even care to share with her. But what is most sad about this story is that they didn't even get to eat dinner.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Ep. 42 - Disney Robots Tom and Dr. Julie Carpenter talk about the latest news of Disney filing a patent for a kind of soft robot for their theme parks. Send email to tom@RoboPsych.com for a chance to win a softcover copy of Sexbots, Killbots & Virtual Dogs: Essays on Ethics and Technology by Dr. Michael LaBossiere. Entrants must live in the US or Canada. Disney files robot patent application Full line up of proposed Disney robots Push Trashcan robot Astro Boy Baymax of Big Hero 6 Bibendum, the Michelin Man Hanson Robotics Sophia robot on Jimmy Fallon Tonight show Julie’s chapter (Deus Sex Machina: Loving Robot Sex Workers, and the Allure of an Insincere Kiss) will appear in this forthcoming book, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications Emotional Design, by Donald A. Norman Uncanny Valley Paro therapeutic robots Little girl mistakes hot water heater for robot Mountain View “engineer” assaults security robot