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Artificial Sexuality: A Round-Table Discussion on Screwing Robots

posted by n1 on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the mrs.-palm-will-be-jealous dept.

AnonTechie writes with an article from Hopes&Fears :

The concept of AI—specifically of the foxy, sexualized persuasion—has permeated pop culture for a very long time, most recently exemplified with Alex Garland's Ex Machina.

Technology, as it is wont to do, continues surging forward, simultaneously beckoning or threatening (depending on personal outlook) the potential of true artificial intelligence. And should these AI rise up, what kind of role would sexuality and sexual identity play in their existence—if at all? Hopes&Fears corralled a group of varied experts to weigh in through a group panel discussion to see what the future holds for us, the AI... and our respective crotch parts.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday May 23 2015, @04:05PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 23 2015, @04:05PM (#186890) Homepage Journal

    Within a few generations everyone will be the offspring of those men who prefer real, reproducing women to fuckbots, and the males will likely (by genetic inheritance) to share those sexual preferences.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 23 2015, @04:45PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday May 23 2015, @04:45PM (#186900)

    Wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Even today, there are countless women having children all by themselves, with no male at all. How do they do it? For most of them, it's easy and free: they go to a bar and "pick up" a man for the night. After that night, she never sees him again, and he has no clue he's gotten her pregnant.

    In the fuckbot future, I can see this being even more common. Women will have hot-looking male fuckbots to screw and to do their household chores while dressed like a Chippendale dancer, and they'll just find some random dude to get pregnant (richer women will go to clinics so they get the best-quality sperm, and later they'll have custom-made sperm) and raise their kid themselves. Men will soon become completely obsolete in society. So if women all start deciding to only have female kids in this marriage-less future, watch out!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @07:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @07:25PM (#186938)

      Marriage is worthless to begin with, and should be completely replaced with individualized contracts, so as not to discriminate against couples who do not want to get married but want some of the legal benefits. It's just a silly social construct with a lot of magical thinking (it makes relationships better, bajeebus wants you to get married, etc.) attached to it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @10:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @10:55PM (#187393)
        Marriage is marriage, with or without the legal aspect. Some sort of legally-defined, standardized set of domestic partnerships like you're describing isn't a bad idea. It would be useful to separate various religions' concepts of marriage from legality, contracts, etc. Separation of church and state helps out the church just as much as it helps out the state, IMO.