Brave New World: The Ethics Of Robot Sex

Ken AshfordScience & Technology, Sex/Morality/Family ValuesLeave a Comment

Robotsexr400pxInteresting times we live in.

Science ethicists are weighing the question of, yup, robot sex:

Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says [techno-ethicist Henrik] Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years,” he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys? The greatest danger, however, is likely to lie with robots that are able to learn from their “experiences”. As systems develop, robots are likely to have much more sophisticated self-learning mechanisms built into them and it may become impossible to predict exactly how they will behave.

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