PhD University Student Says Sex With Robots Coming Soon

Netherlands university student David Levy, who recently completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships says that humans will be marrying robots by 2050 and having sex with them not long after.

Levy thinks that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.

"At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot and it was great!' appear in a magazine like Cosmo, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," he says.

In his thesis "Intimate relationships with Artificial Partners", Levy argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships.

"For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that's programmable too."

Although roboticist Ronald Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta does not think human-robot marriages will be legal by 2050, he says "anything's possible. And just because it's not legal doesn't mean people won't try it".

"Humans are very unusual creatures. If you ask me if every human will want to marry a robot, my answer is probably not. But will there be a subset of people? There are people ready right now to marry sex toys.", Arkin says.

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