LILY FRANK 

LOVE AND SEX WITH ROBOTS | ETHICS & TECHNOLOGY | PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY | HUMAN ENHANCEMENT 

Lily Frank (TU/e) is a philosopher and assistant professor in the School of Innovation Science at TU/e and in the Philosophy and Ethics group. She is working on the ethics of socially disruptive technologies, including bioethics, artificial intelligence, and behaviour change technologies.  Her current research focuses on issues at the intersection of applied ethics, specifically bioethics and metaethics and moral psychology, such as moral expertise, moralization of health conditions, and technology and moral progress and moral change through technology. She is also working on issues in reproductive ethics (e.g. the artificial womb) and sex and dating technology, including sex robots and dating apps. Lily Eva Frank received bachelor’s degree from Smith College where she studied philosophy and economics. She completed her doctorate in Philosophy in 2014 from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, From 2007 to 2013 she was an Ethics Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. She has also held teaching positions at Hunter College and Queens College, City University of New York. Currently she is also a Senior Researcher at the 4TU Center for Ethics and Technology.