Sexbots: Drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and the Tantric tradition

Robin Mackenzie
2020 Journal of Future Robot Life  
The plethora of technologies offering to match us up with our perfect partners, or to provide us with the ultimate sexual high, evidences our unfulfilled need for sexual and emotional companionship and fulfilment, together with the difficulties of embodying our fantasies in this arena. Sentient, self-aware sex robots [henceforth, sexbots] customised as companions to cater for our unique individual intimacy needs through deep learning capabilities will be designed to provide us with both. They
more » ... ll revolutionise our sexual, emotional and spiritual intimate and domestic lives. Implications of this transformation for hopes of a harmonious future where humans, post-Singularity intelligent robots, sexbots and all other sentient beings can flourish are explored. With the greatest respect, tentative suggestions for ways forward drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and the Tantric tradition are offered in order to foster a post-Singularity future where all sentient beings, including super-compassionate superintelligent robots, sexbots, humans and nonhuman animals, can flourish.
doi:10.3233/frl-200003 fatcat:cfmnlyc7jrhs5aajlqmxisqklm