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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, @08:18PM
Because the real world is ugly and boring, which is the same reason that I simply masturbate. Just as I am not sexually attracted to garbage cans, I am not sexually attracted to real people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @04:12AM
My feeling is that I am asking a lot from a woman to have sex with her. So much so that women expect payment for it, just as I expect payment for doing something I do not like to do.
If I can offload that duty onto a machine, then as far as I am concerned it relieves the woman of having to do this for a man just as a washing machine frees her from the tedium of washing clothes.
What it means is that the time I can spend with a woman would then be quality time, not time spent satiating my glands at her expense.