Posted on 09/14/2015 5:19:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.
Sex dolls already on the market are becoming more sophisticated and some are now hoping to build artificial intelligence into their products.
Those working in the field say that there is a need for such robots.
Dr Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University in Leicester, wants to raise awareness of the issue and persuade those developing sex robots to rethink how their technology is used.
"Sex robots seem to be a growing focus in the robotics industry and the models that they draw on - how they will look, what roles they would play - are very disturbing indeed," she told the BBC.
She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.
"We think that the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women," she said.
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David Levy, author of the book Love and Sex with Robots, believes that there will be a huge market for dolls such as Roxxy and predicts that by 2050, intimate relationships between robots and humans will be commonplace.
"There is an increasing number of people who find it difficult to form relationships and this will fill a void. It is not demeaning to women any more than vibrators are demeaning," he told the BBC.
As such robots become more sophisticated and are able to simulate human behaviour, so the relationship with humans will become more complex, he thinks.
Dr Curran worries that society as a whole is ill-prepared for an age where sophisticated robotic companions are the norm.
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Yessiree!
Well, it would certainly put a big crimp in the abortion business.
I was thinking about coyote ugly.
You know, when you go home with a woman you wouldn’t want your friends to see you with and at 3 in the morning you realized that she is snuggled up close to you, has a hold of your arm so you can’t get away and like an animal in the grip of a trap, you quietly, so as not to wake her, knaw your arm off to free yourself and leave
Harcourt Fenton Mudd ... I knew someone would post his pic on this thread!
Cute face, but why is she dressed like a Stormtrooper ?
Two points;
“She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.”
Women may be a bigger market for these things then men!
And
67 posts and nobody pinged Laz to this thread? You guys are slacking!
>>YEAH BABY! SHAKE DAT METAL @SS!<<
We have to call Bender in for this one!
>>u quietly, so as not to wake her, knaw your arm off to free yourself and leave<<
You know it was REALLY bad when you then gnaw off your other to make sure you never do that again
Very Funny.
All I’m sayin’ is: Men and Women are very different.
If it’s beyond you to give some SNUGGLES, kisses, and a little talk to your Lady, after sex, then maybe you really need to refine your lovemaking skills.
Otherwise, you will wind up ‘not getting any’ after the first few times - unless it’s extremely resentful sex, from a woman who doesn’t respect herself, OR you. I guarantee you, that will NOT be very interesting sex!
And if you continue in that way, you’re going to always wind up with nasty wolverines, like the ones your post suggests that you are used to.
Just a thought :-)
-JT
Heard a country song on the radio this weekend with the line, “why can’t you love me like my dog does”.
Soon to be one upped by a future song, “why can’t you love me like my robot does”.
Bill has first dibs on the Beta model?
See the other thread out there about Rep Polis being cheered when he said it was ok to expel eight male college students falsely accused of sexual assault if doing so meant expelling two that were actually guilty of it.
Whoevers first to market with these things is going to make a freaking fortune.
Not exactly my idea of a good civics lesson and BTW, you are right, somebody will be rich.
LOL, I just finished New Vegas for 3rd time although it was the first time with all the DLC. Playing 3 now with all the DLC hoping to make it last until Fallout 4 comes out in November.
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