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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:49PM
I think one concern is that if machine intelligence advances enough, robots will have rights.
If that is the case, having sex with a "dumb" robot may be considered rape since they can not consent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:56PM
Then the robots might prefer each other and exchange genetic information when they mate.
Uh oh, I just gave away the big idea for my screenplay.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday November 07 2015, @07:06PM
Just call it R.U.R.
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