This paper discusses the issue of human-like machines, with a strong focus on the development of meaningful social interaction between robots and later on sex robots. By analyzing our human-to-machine relationship, and the suggestion of humanity within robotics and AI human emotions, this document will give you an insight into the world of our relationship with machines. Throughout the whole document, you’ll find different approaches to the question of whether we can build a relationship with a digital identity and what this means. In the end, this document will discuss the use of sex robots in the future since everything human-like in robots is completely programmed. As robots enter our social space, we will inherently project our interpretation of their behavior. This will reflect in the time we will invest in building machines that are even more human-like even though they cannot experience the world as flexibly and deeply as humans can. The danger of artificial intelligence is therefore not that AI will replace us. The danger is that we outsource our thinking capacity to machines that do not understand our human world and forget to invest in machine AND human learning. For that, we need to learn to recognize our human intelligence and to be aware of how contemporary technologies are changing our intelligence. But what if robots do gain a human-like awareness...
This is all speculative and written in de shadow of an uncertain future.
