Academics will be gathering in Malaysia for the second “Love and Sex with Robots” conference this November to discuss the ethical, legal and moral aspects of the topic. So leave your “dirty” thoughts at home, this is for science!
In a nutshell, the aim of the conference is to basically be discussing the full ramifications involved with loving a machine, which may or may not look incredibly human.
The conference will be chaired by City University London’s Prof Adrian Cheok and Intelligent Toys Limited’s chief executive officer Dr David Levy; as the scientific conference is held on 16 November 2015 in the lack Box and White Box arts complex in Medini Mall in Johor.
Planned topics are to include robot emotions, humanoid robots, clone robots, entertainment robots, robot personalities, teledildonics (hee) and intelligent electronic sex hardware. This will be followed by gender, philosophical, sociological, psychological issues alongside roboethics to be discussed at the conference.
“We really don’t know how human society will react. The worst case scenario is that people begin to have a robot partner rather than a human partner,” quotes Cheok, who specialises in human-computer interfaces and believes that robots will become a greater part of human lives.
David Levy , who also wrote the 2007 book “Love and Sex and Robots”, adds that it won’t be long before humans develop extremely lifelike robots and human like artificial intelligence is not too far behind.
The congress is apparently part of the Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2015 Conferences and supposedly has government backing as well.
We’re not sure how this would fly considering how conservative our local climate is about these things but it would be interesting to see how it pans out.
