Well, here’s an idea that’s destined for lengthy, heated debate:
Treat pedophiles and other sexual deviants by building robots that would quench their illegal desires.
“Child-like robots could be used for pedophiles the way methadone is used to treat drug addicts,” said Ron Arkin, Georgia Tech’s Mobile Robot Lab director, according to Forbes.
At a recent robot ethics seminar at the University of California at Berkeley, experts debated moral and ethical concerns in the rising development of artificial intelligence.
Including the use of child robots as sex toys.
“We’ve had sex toys for as long as mankind, and womankind, have been around,” Arkin told the group.
Arkin said he didn’t advocate selling child-size robots as sexual aids, but rather as something to be used in research settings.
“I only believe it is worth investigating in a controlled way to possibly provide better protection to society from recidivism in sex offenders,” he told Forbes.
“If we can save some children, I think it’s a worthwhile project.”
Other experts, including Ben Way, author of "Jobocalypse: The End of Human Jobs and How Robots Will Replace Them," have suggested robots in the shape of animals and disabled people could be sold to practicers of bestiality and those with fetishes and "dark desires."
