2018
DOI: 10.4018/ijt.2018010101
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Sexbots

Abstract: This article describes how sexbots: sentient, self-aware, feeling artificial moral agents created soon as customised potential sexual/intimate partners provoke crucial questions for technoethics. Coeckelbergh's model of human/robotic relations as co-evolving to their mutual benefit through mutual vulnerability is applied to sexbots. As sexbots have a sustainable claim to moral standing, benefits and vulnerabilities inherent in human/sexbots relations must be identified and addressed for both parties. Humans' a… Show more

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“…Emotional and sexual intimacy depends upon mutuality in relationships. We will want to feel not only that we love sexbots but also that they love us, and love us for ourselves [19,22,23,[29][30][31]. This implies that, like us, they will possess the autonomy to choose whether to love us or not, self-awareness and subjectivity.…”
Section: Questions Arising From Ethical and Legal Tensions Provoked Bmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Emotional and sexual intimacy depends upon mutuality in relationships. We will want to feel not only that we love sexbots but also that they love us, and love us for ourselves [19,22,23,[29][30][31]. This implies that, like us, they will possess the autonomy to choose whether to love us or not, self-awareness and subjectivity.…”
Section: Questions Arising From Ethical and Legal Tensions Provoked Bmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Human empathy may entail nurture but can equally be shut down to neglect other humans in need, or to torture and dehumanize the less powerful. Designer customizations promoting ethical treatment of sexbots by humans are desirable to prevent the infliction and experience of suffering [23,39]. If we want our sexbots to be sentient, self-aware, and sympathetic, their design will need to factor in empathic abilities and humanlike subjectivity which will evoke ethical conduct by humans in ways which guarantee safety for all parties.…”
Section: Choices In Customization and The Ethics Of Those Who Design mentioning
confidence: 99%
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