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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...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:12PM
There is a large difference between intimacy and sex. People don't only have sex with people they are intimate with and there probably aren't very many people that have an intimate relationship with a dildo, pocket pussy, showerhead, etc.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:36PM
I love my linux, my gnu, my arch, my i3wm... i'm not much good with people: my wife doesn't understand me half the time, some people just ANNOY the HELLL out of me.
My 'setup' (dual monitor) and i get along wonderfully.
Do i have an intimate relationship with my 'setup'? It doesn't wear a blue dress, so i guess you'd have to define intimate (i did not have sexual relations with that blue dress!!!).
Would my life be easier with a realistic 'Barbie' doll? HELL YES!!!
Could intimacy (a physical and mental closeness) be believed by me? I might be able to fake it in order to just get on in my life (women can be completely bamboozling to me): I mean, i DO have a physical and mental closeness with my 'setup' (when i get behind my computer, i relax completely, i feel mentally 'pumped', i can be completely 'into' it).
Would it be better? Could i make it be just as nice?
That, Watson, is the question...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @07:44PM
People also don't always have sex with people they are intimate with, unless they have a fetish for incest.