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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 07 2015, @12:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-topics-are-just-too-weird-for-words dept.

The folks over at CNBC have dug up some experts to explore the question should you have sex with robots:

Should we be having sex with robots?

It's a question that has sparked fierce debate among moralists and the robotics industry. And it turns out, they're all split on what role machines should play in future relationships.

During a discussion at the Web Summit technology conference in Dublin on Wednesday, experts warned about the dangers of getting intimate with robots.

"It's something we should be very concerned about...because if people feel they can have an intimate relationship with a machine, that is saying something serious about how we're experiencing empathy with each other," Kathleen Richardson, senior research fellow in the ethics of robotics at the U.K.'s De Montfort University, said during the panel.

The academic, who launched the "campaign against sex robots" earlier this year, added that "we are losing our sense of humanity."

How, exactly, do you get to be an expert on banging robots? Just saying...


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:10PM (#259944)

    But but but... putting your gentitals into a plastic mold that's a particular shape is morally WRONG.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:12PM (#259945)

    But but but... putting a plastic mold that's a particular shape into your gentitals is... wait, what?

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:25PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:25PM (#259959) Journal

      is fun to watch on teh internets!

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