Sex Robots (with Kate Devlin)

The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Kate Devlin to talk about social relationships between humans and machines.

When most people think about our future with robots, they tend to ask the following three questions: (1) Will robots take my job?. (2) Will they kill us?, and (3) Can I have sex with them?

This week, the HBS hosts are joined by Dr. 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).  We talk to Dr. Devlin about the many variations of ethical, social, and sometimes sexual  relationships we have with machines. 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?

Full episode notes at this link:
http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-66-sex-robots

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