“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?
“The question is what authority are we going to delegate to these machines?” said Professor Ronald Arkin, a roboticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “Are we, for example, going to give robots the ability to execute lethal force, or any force, like crowd control?”
(RTWT)
Personally, the prospect of robotic violence bothers me much more than the prospect of robotic sex. In any case, you can probably count on the first instance of the latter taking place in Japan.
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Keep in mind that some people would think that violent robots are sexy.
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