TYT: Will Sex Robots Make Real Women Obsolete?

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A robot ethicist is going after sex robots, saying that banning them is important if you care about real relationships. Dr. Kathleen Richardson claims that men will prefer the robots and that real women will become obsolete. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Would you buy a sex robot? Can it replace a real person? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482

“A campaign has been launched calling for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex.

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.”

[MynameisBlarney]

1. Really?

Someone is actually concerned about this?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. She has to find a way to justify her job as a 'robot ethicist'. nt

[yeoman6987]

5. She must have missed the movie "Her"

OS' are the future....

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Um, why is it assumed women will be the ones displaced?

Is it still the 1800's, when women are assumed not to have sexual desires of their own or something? What kind of crappy journalism is this?

Pretty sure some percentage of people of any gender will have an interest in this technology.

[appalachiablue]

4. Surprise, surprise & titter away. Only a matter of time this showed up here & elsewehere.

Anti-human tech Fantasy creep-

[gordianot]

6. So male robots are much less effective, female robots at risk.

Dr. Richardson may be one of the few people in the world worried about female robots. I suggest she take her case to Fox News tap into some good old RW outrage recruit some fundie disgust. They could try out Billo see if he is as abusive to his robot as actual live females. Everyone wins, female humans, Fox News legal fees, no need for hush money, no one gets hurt.

This is the type of goofy story that makes my morning.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. I think Futurama addressed this very problem in the "I Dated a Robot" episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot

[Quackers]

8. The real problem here is what happens when my robot girlfriend replaces me with a vibrator?

I become obsolete? What if my robot girlfriend want to develop a better model vibrator? Sex robots building sex robots? Think of the madness! This is like Termanator meets Jenna Jameson! Think of the children! The human race will be fucked right into extinction! OMG, THE ROBOTS HAVE BECOME SELF PLEASURING!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!

[navarth]

9. But what about the orgasmatron???

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[rocktivity]

13. You're welcome

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[treestar]

10. The Stepford Wives

what if the robots find they prefer each other?

[geek tragedy]

11. women won't be able to date dysfunctional, permanently adolescent losers

under this scenario.

[rocktivity]

12. You mean there are no plans

to make MALE sex robots?


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