Would you have sex with a robot? Would you marry one? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union?
These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it. It has proved controversial, not only to countries with conservative views.
There were no representatives from the sex industry in attendance and no sex robots on display, leading some to question the point of the event.
RealDolls, a Californian-based firm that makes lifelike sex toys, claimed that it would release an artificial intelligence-enhanced sex doll next year. The launch, if it happens, will be vindication for Dr David Levy, who has long predicted the era of intelligent human-looking robots.
A story for those hoping to find a Fully Integrated Security Technotronic Officer under the tree Christmas morning...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Sunday December 25 2016, @09:35PM
It is not the first time right of robots are debated. In an indirect way of course. Now there are two options.
1. the same power structure that does not care of the rights of workers, of poor people, cares about AI driven things.
2. the same power structure that likes to control workers and poor people will give rights to AI powered servants so that humans damaging them will be jailed as they committed crimes against a person.
If it seems SF to you, remember corporations have the right of privacy.
Being alive is being result of the process called life, that is either god inspired or product of growth, multiplication, adaptation, resulting in lasting power. AI is not alive if it is not emergent but simulated, or if it is constrained to do only the bidding of the owner.
So be very wary of people innocently discussing the rights of AI, they are preparing the brave new world.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @10:02PM
Who cares about "being alive"? What matters is whether or not the AI is sentient.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:41PM
Sociopaths are sentient, but I doubt they are really alive.
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(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday December 25 2016, @11:33PM
2. the same power structure that likes to control workers and poor people will give rights to AI powered servants so that humans damaging them will be jailed as they committed crimes against a person.
If it seems SF to you, remember corporations have the right of privacy.
No, you will be jailed because you committed a crime against property. That power structure cares very much about that.