Roboticists recently held a meeting in Genoa, put on by the European Robotics Research Network (Euron), in which they examined potential problems that could arise as robots become smarter. Among the comments:
“Security, safety and sex are the big concerns,” said Henrik Christensen, a member of the Euron ethics group. How far should robots be allowed to influence people’s lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy?
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Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says 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?
And why should this concern us? Sounds like good news to me. Make them sexy and make then soon.
