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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...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:37PM
The quote is very telling: "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". In other words, some people's action would be "saying" something Ms. Richardson does not like to hear, so her proposal is to ban that action.
Banning what she does[n't] like to hear is what she thinks as "ethics".
I agree, it is instructive how they word it. And it is an almost pathologically narcissistic viewpoint too. We shouldn't get our ethics from people with this kind of trouble upstairs.