So, a New Jersey-based company True Companion is getting ready to launch the world's first sex robot with artificial intelligence by the end of the year, but a group of experts on Tuesday started a campaign with a grim warning that the bots could "encourage and intensify the objectification of women and children." So, what? If you're not getting it at home and you don't want to cheat and your sick of Rosie Palm and her five sisters, why can't you bang a robot? A U.K.-based ethicist and Campaign Against Sex Robot leader, Kathleen Richardson told the BBC, "We think the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women." I'm sure this woman owns 10 vibrators.
At first, Richardson thought the robots were harmless. She said, "When I first started looking into the subject, I thought, 'oh sex robots. That's harmless and perhaps these robots would reduce demand for real women and children. But then as I researched the subject more, I found that the opposite was true, that rather than reduce the objectification of women, children and also men and transgender people, there robots would contribute and reinforce their position in society as objects." I still don't get the kids. How will the robot effect the kids? The women I kind of get, but who cares?
The robots, basically sex dolls with A.I. (artificial intelligence), haven't hit shelves yet. A company called True Companion has promised to start selling the "world's first sex robot," named Roxxxy, later this year. She's set to sell for about $7,000. C.E.O Douglas Hines said his robots are not about abuse and objectification, and not entirely about sex. Rather they offer companionship and emotional intimacy too. A robot can converse with its owner and will be able to pick up on his or her dislikes. If you ask me, they should be worried more about the creepiness of the whole thing rather than objectification. He said, "We're not supplanting the wife or trying to replace the girlfriend. This is a solution for people who are between relationships or someone who lost a spouse. The physical act of sex will only be a small part of the time you spend with a sex robot. The majority of the time will be spent socializing and interacting with it." Like I said....Creepy!
Still, the ethicists worry that the robots will become a substitute for human interaction all together. My take is that interacting with a robot is creepy as hell. I barely even speak to Siri because I think it's so weird. Would I have sex with a doll? Probably not. She would have to be one hell of a hot doll, but nothing and no one is hotter than my wife. (No, she did not make me say that!) I do agree with the CEO about the robot being a substitute for that in between time when there is no companion and with the dating scene the way it is, having a robot companion with A.I. might not be a bad alternative. What do you think?
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