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"Whitby urged us to act now, before it’s too late. “We need to have these discussions instead of waking up one day when robot companions are normal and question whether it was a good idea or not," he says. And as this kind of technology is rolled out around the world, he had a stark warning about where the democratisation of technology is taking us: “How would you feel about your ex boyfriend getting a robot that looked exactly like you, just in order to beat it up every night?” It’s a shocking idea, isn’t it? On the one hand, it’s a machine - it isn’t you. But then, it is you, because it stands for you, and who you are. Whitby added: “I mean, it might be alright, it might mean he can be calmer and more normal with you - think about Aristotle’s theory of catharsis. But we really haven’t discussed this as a society. We’re drifting towards it and the technology is very close to being available, but we just aren’t talking about it.” It’s time we started having these conversations, before those oft quoted science fiction dystopias become a nightmarish reality."

"We found a number of health claims were being made, which we analyzed," explained study co-author Chantal Cox-George. Shes an academic foundation doctor at St. Georges University Hospitals with the NHS Foundation Trust in London. "That sexbots might help safe sex, be therapeutic for people with sex or companionship problems, and might reduce sexual abuse of children." But in the end, "we were unable to find any empirical evidence in the medical literature to support or refute any of these," she said."

"Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly."

"Kathleen Richardson is an ethics professor at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She told the Washington Post that sex robots represent an intrusion of machines in human relationships. She also believes the devices perfection and compliance might numb men to relationships with real women. "It offends me that they think a human woman is like a machine," Richardson said. So Bewley and Cox-George tried to investigate the evidence for these "anti-sexbot" theories—that they would cause men to expect real women to be constantly available for sex; that the airbrushed and largely hairless features of sexbots might promote unrealistic expectations of beauty; or that sexbots might actually increase the urge to inflict sexual violence on real people. But there was simply too little evidence available to support or deny these claims, the researchers found. Their take-home message: "Based on the lack of evidence, which is at the heart of medical professionalism, we advise that sexbots shouldnt be used in medical practice, at least not unless that forms part of robust and ethical research."

"[Machines are] always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, theres never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex, or race discrimination case."

"In the face of profound and epochal changes, world leaders are challenged to ensure that the coming fourth industrial revolution, the result of robotics and scientific and technological innovations, does not lead to the destruction of the human person - to be replaced by a soulless machine."