Sex with a robot: scientists warn of the emergence of people of the new gender
In 2015, Americans Mark Gouldfider from Emory University Law School and a graduate robot student Josef Reisin wondered: under what conditions would a marriage be registered with a robot? And they came to the conclusion that the answer depends on whether the robot is recognized as a person , RIA Novosti reports.
If this happens, the robot will have to assume social responsibility, obligations stipulated by law. An example is the registration of a marriage in Seattle between Angela Marie Vogel and a corporation. Although the verdict was soon canceled, a precedent was created.
For marriage, the key condition is also the consent of the parties. And if the robot is recognized as a person, it should be endowed with the ability to agree to a marriage contract. But then a lot of philosophical questions arise, for example, can artificial intelligence realize the essence of marriage, but all this is beyond the scope of legal law. If the marriage is legal and does not harm anyone, then why not, the scientists make conclusions.
Artificial intelligence specialist, computer chess creator David Levy (Great Britain) in his book Love and Sex with Robots, published in 2007, suggested that the first marriage with a robot would be registered in 2050.
In 2016, the Frenchwoman Lilly wanted to marry a robot. Her favorite was InMoovator, which she printed on a 3D printer.
A year later, Chinese Jiajia Zhenyu, an expert in artificial intelligence, was married to a robot, however, unofficially. As the media reported, the young man was desperate to find a girl and was tired of the reproaches of the family, so he organized a solemn ceremony with the robot, inviting his mother and friends.
In 2017, the non-profit foundation “For Responsible Robotics” presented the report “Our sexual future with robots” at the Scientific Media Center in London. Interviewing industry experts and scientists, the authors concluded that robots for sex could be created in the near future and this would greatly affect society, although it is impossible to predict how.
Most respondents are inclined to believe that the development of the market for sex robots will lead to social isolation. Manufacturers of this kind of machines say the opposite: robots will save from loneliness.
While the humanoid robots are not yet perfect, but technology, in principle, allows to achieve a complete imitation of romantic relationships and sex. This will change the sex services market, say the report’s authors. It is assumed that robots will engage in brothels (the first such institutions have already opened in Asia and Europe) and medicine for the treatment of complex cases of sexual disorder. It is possible that robots will satisfy the darkest needs of people.
All this raises concerns among professionals and the public. What will be the impact on the human psyche that the first sexual experience will be with the robot? Will a person be able to control himself with a real partner if he permits violence over the machine?
Participants in the Campaign against Sexrobots, created in 2015, propose to adhere to ethical principles when developing such automata. Activists believe that this industry is potentially dangerous for society, increases social inequality, increases the level of inadequacy and violence, weakens the ability to empathize with people.
Canadian philosopher Neil MacArthur from the University of Manitoba and the American psychologist Mark Twist from the University of Nevada study a new social phenomenon in a series of articles - people identifying their own sexual behavior through technology that prefers relationships with robots. They are offered to be called digitalsexuals. The term “robosexuals” is also found in literature and media.
Scientists distinguish two waves of digital sexuality. The first is programs, sites, devices with the help of which people communicate with each other: dating sites, flirting by video chatting, computer games with virtual sex avatars, and so on. These technologies serve only as intermediaries between real partners.
The second wave - technologies and devices that create the effect of presence: augmented reality helmets, sex robots. To meet intimate needs, a real partner is not needed. Such technologies are still underdeveloped so as to oust relations between people, but this time is not far off, MacArthur and Twist believe.
Researchers are not willing to predict the fate of digital sexuality. Partner robots can remain only sex toys, fetishes. However, the emergence of a new gender identity is not excluded. The society still has a negative attitude towards such a prospect; physicians, faced with robosexuals, do not always understand what they are talking about, but things can change in the coming years.
What may happen may happen but real and psychologically health people will never go for a robot. Only frustrated people like jiajia zhenyu can marry a robot.
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The first part to do with marriage I'd highly doubt we'd ever see (at least an official marriage), because there are laws being put in place now to stop us from making AI "too smart" and I'd imagine if we get to the point that they can consent to stuff like marriage (and they truly consent in that they could have chosen not to and they understand the gravity of it and it isn't just a random decision), it is probably already past the point that the laws are trying to stop them from developing to, as the abilities involved in that will transfer over to things other than marriage. I'm not sure where the line is, so we might eventually see that, but I think the line will be drawn before that and the law will stop them reaching that point. It might happen without the robot's consent, or with "consent" that isn't real informed consent (so wouldn't be legal if it was a person who didn't have the ability to be fully informed as they'd be classed as unable to consent), but that seems unlikely too. I guess we'll see whether it happens in our lifetime or not. Plus more than consent comes in or gay marriage etc would have happened sooner than it did (which was ridiculous, that should have happened earlier, but it shows that it is about more than just consent). I doubt we will see marriage with robots outside of fiction.
As for the sex stuff, that wouldn't overly surprise me. There's porn of just about everything, so if humanoid robots became freely available and affordable, I have no doubt some people would have sex with them. I don't think it will reach the point that everyone chooses robots over people or anything like that, simply because not everyone will, but some people would do sexual things with them, regardless of if they are made for that or not. Whether it reaches the point the market starts making sex bots specifically is another question, but if the demand is there that wouldn't surprise me either. Robots made for that purpose wouldn't need the same level of intelligence as ones able to consent to marriage etc too, so that also makes it more likely than being able to legally marry a robot. If they did have that level of intelligence, that would actually make the whole thing more questionable morally since they should probably be able to choose to consent to sex or not then too, so the level of intelligence needed for consenting for marriage would likely be a con in this case.
It will be very interesting to see how AI and robotics develops over time but we do have a legal ceiling on how smart they can be and already it's getting interesting, both in terms of the really intelligent ones (i.e. ones the average person can't get hold of) and in terms of what is available to individuals too. There's a big difference between those two groups, but both are advancing and it's interesting to see. I don't know what the far future holds in terms of robotics and AI, but the near future looks like it could be very interesting.