Call for ban on sex robots

[Misfit]

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.

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.

"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.

 

[GURPS]

robot ethicist

WTF really :shrug: no Cherry 2000

 

[Gilligan]

Wow. They've really come along way since the early days of dildos mounted on sawzalls, I guess.....

 

[Larry Gude]

Is this for same sex sex robots only or all of them??? What about poly-bot sex bots? Is this to cover bots of different types or is miscegeno-bot sex bottery OK? Would sexbots be considered subordinate and therefore sex slavebots and, if so, is it too soon to start discussing reparations???

 

[HotPinkChicken]

Wow. They've really come along way since the early days of dildos mounted on sawzalls, I guess.....

Eww, do you remember a few years ago when a woman from SOMD get her lady bits tore up from using one of those???

 

[GWguy]

Can't help but to think of this....

 

[b23hqb]

What will the boy do without it's stick-it-in- em', really-lick-em' robots?

 

[Monello]

Reading the thread title, I knew instantly who posted this story.

 

[Misfit]

I don’t think banning is the answer. They could require a cooling off period before you can buy one and maybe restrict the amount of loads it can carry.

:shrug:

 

[glhs837]

Don't forget biometric safety measures........

 

[vraiblonde]

Not even a basic pleasure model?

 

[Misfit]

Not even a basic pleasure model?

Things have changed.

 

[stgislander]

Reading the thread title, I knew instantly who posted this story.

I guessed wrong.

 

[Gilligan]

Eww, do you remember a few years ago when a woman from SOMD get her lady bits tore up from using one of those???

How does one ever forget a story like that one?

 

[SamSpade]

Somebody must have watched "Humans"

 

[PeoplesElbow]

As long as they don't come after tentacle porn.

 

[glhs837]

So, does this come under the GIGO rule?