AI Love You: Developments in Human-Robot Intimate Relationships

✍ Scribed by Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the emerging topics and rapid technological developments of robotics and artificial intelligence through the lens of the evolving role of sex robots, and how they should best be designed to serve human needs. An international panel of authors provides the most up-to-date, evidence-based empirical research on the potential sexual applications of artificial intelligence. Early chapters discuss the objections to sexual activity with robots while also providing a counterargument to each objection. Subsequent chapters present the implications of robot sex as well as the security and data privacy issues associated with sexual interactions with artificial intelligence. The book concludes with a chapter highlighting the importance of a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the study of human - robot sexuality.
Topics featured in this book include:

• The Sexual Interaction Illusion Model.
• The personal companion system, Harmony, designed by Realbotix™.
• An exposition of the challenges of personal data control and protection when dealing with artificial intelligence.
• The current and future technological possibilities of projecting three-dimensional holograms.
• Expert discussion notes from an international workshop on the topic.

AI Love You will be of interest to academic researchers in psychology, robotics, ethics, medical science, sociology, gender studies as well as clinicians, policy makers, and the business sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Negative and Positive Influences on the Sensations Evoked by Artificial Sex Partners: A Review of Relevant Theories, Recent Findings, and Introduction of the Sexual Interaction Illusion Model (Jessica M. Szczuka, Tilo Hartmann, Nicole C. Krämer)....Pages 3-19
Intentionality but Not Consciousness: Reconsidering Robot Love (Viktor Kewenig)....Pages 21-39
The Use of Social Robots and the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon (Melinda A. Mende, Martin H. Fischer, Katharina Kühne)....Pages 41-73
Front Matter ....Pages 75-75
Living with Harmony: A Personal Companion System by Realbotix™ (Kino Coursey, Susan Pirzchalski, Matt McMullen, Guile Lindroth, Yuri Furuushi)....Pages 77-95
Readable as Intimate: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Empirical Interrogation of Software Implementations of Intimacy (Kit Kuksenok, Stefania Santagati)....Pages 97-110
From the Mind to the Cloud: Personal Data in the Age of the Internet of Things (Giuseppe Lugano, Martin Hudák, Matúš Ivančo, Tomáš Loveček)....Pages 111-130
Front Matter ....Pages 131-131
Building Better Sex Robots: Lessons from Feminist Pornography (John Danaher)....Pages 133-147
Hologram Girl (Oliver Bendel)....Pages 149-165
Front Matter ....Pages 167-167
Preventive Strategies for Pedophilia and the Potential Role of Robots: Open Workshop Discussion (Yuefang Zhou)....Pages 169-174
Front Matter ....Pages 175-175
Intimate Relationships with Humanoid Robots: Exploring Human Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century (Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer)....Pages 177-184
Back Matter ....Pages 185-189

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Social Philosophy; Sexual Behavior; Sociology of Culture; Psychotherapy and Counseling