Robot Sex by John Danaher & Neil McArthur

Author:John Danaher & Neil McArthur
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: philosophy; human computer interaction; HCI; social studies of science; STS; technology; robotics; sexbots; human-robot sexual relationships; love; society; ethics; sexuality; alt sex
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

9.2 The Life of a Sexbot

So now, assuming that there will be intelligent sexbots of ethical value, let us consider whether they could live good lives. (From here I’ll just call them “sexbots,” and assume you remember I just mean ones as intelligent and ethically valuable as humans.) When considering this, we must be careful to avoid an easy mistake: measuring the sexbots’ lives by comparing them to similar human lives. When asked to imagine a robot person designed from scratch for sex, our brains boggle with the unfamiliar. So we naturally (and perhaps subconsciously) consider the next closest familiar analogy: humans coerced from childhood into sex work. We are (rightly) morally repulsed by these cases, and so transfer our indignation to the sexbots by analogy. But this heuristic for evaluating the ethics of the circumstance misfires; sexbots would be so different from such more familiar cases that the analogy fails to hold.

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