{"id":32916,"date":"2016-12-24T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/experts-predict-human-robot-marriage-will-be-legal-by-2050"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:27:55","slug":"experts-predict-human-robot-marriage-will-be-legal-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/experts-predict-human-robot-marriage-will-be-legal-by-2050","title":{"rendered":"Experts predict human-robot marriage will be legal by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Though Cheok acknowledges that sex robots could fulfill sexist male sexual fantasies, he believes robot-human marriages will have an overwhelmingly positive effect on society. \u201cPeople assume that everyone can get married, have sex, fall in love. But actually many don\u2019t,\u201d he says. And even those who do might be in search of a different option. \u201cA lot of human marriages are very unhappy,\u201d Cheok says. \u201cCompared to a bad marriage, a robot will be better than a human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though various sex robots are on the market, there are none that come close to resembling a human sexual partner\u2014and there\u2019s certainly nothing like the type of humanoid robot capable of replicating a loving relationship. However, Cheok believes the greatest technological difficulty in creating love robots is not a mechanical challenge, but a matter of developing the software necessary to build a robot that understands human conversation skillfully enough for the job.<\/p>\n

Once that problem has been addressed, Cheok sees no problem with romances between man and machine. \u201cIf a robot looks like it loves you, and you feel it loves you, then you\u2019re essentially going to feel like it\u2019s almost human love,\u201d he says. Cheok points out that in Japan and South Korea, there are already cases of humans falling in love with computer characters. Cheok also compares robot love to human emotions for other species, such as pet cats. \u201cWe already have very high empathy for non-human creatures. That\u2019s why I think once we have robots that act human, act emotional, or look human, it\u2019s going to be a small jump for us to feel empathy towards robots,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Though Cheok acknowledges that sex robots could fulfill sexist male sexual fantasies, he believes robot-human marriages will have an overwhelmingly positive effect on society. \u201cPeople assume that everyone can get married, have sex, fall in love. But actually many don\u2019t,\u201d he says. And even those who do might be in search of a different option. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59372,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions\/59372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}