![]() Caitlin Roper, “Better a robot than a real child”: the spurious logic used to justify child sex dolls” ( ABC, 2022).“Be Right Back” (Season 2, Episode 1 of Black Mirror on Netflix).Realdoll, the leading manufacturer of sex dolls.The Egyptian myth of Osiris, Isis, and and Horus.Raymond Zhong, “Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations to the Edge” ( New York Times, 2022).In this episode, we refer to the following thinkers/ideas/texts/etc.: What is the nature of our love, hate, desire, and envy of our robot companions? Why are we so often “creeped out” by them? And what might our para-social relationships with robots tell us about our own moral dispositions? Devlin about the many variations of ethical, social, and sometimes sexual relationships we have with machines. Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and the author of Turned On: Science, Sex, and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018). This week, the HBS hosts are joined by Dr. ![]() (2) Will they kill us?, or (3) Will I be able to have sex with them? When most people think about our future with robots, they tend to ask one of the following three questions: (1) Will robots take my job?. ![]()
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