Some aspects of human consent to sex with robots1

David Levy
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Abstract Part of the ethical debate about sex with robots concerns whether sex with a robot is rape of that robot. It therefore makes sense for us to debate what should be the boundaries of consent, decades from now, i.e. consent given by humans to robots. How will the sexbot landscape look in situations when it is the human who is consenting, or not, to a sexual invitation or advance by the robot? The sexbot will have responsibilities towards its human partner, and there will be moral and legal consequences if it fails to deliver on those responsibilities. An unresolved ethical argument employed by many of those who deplore the coming advent of sex robots is that robots are unable to proffer a meaningful indication of sexual consent, and therefore a human deciding to have sex with a robot is committing rape of the robot. A parallel question, as yet to be addressed, is under what circumstances should a robot be considered to be acting in a sexually inappropriate or illegal manner towards a human? And this question embraces some others, including: “How can a robot determine, with any degree of certainty, whether or not a proximate human wants or at least consents to sex?”; “What behaviours by a robot are permissible within the #MeToo context when the robot is exploring a proximate human’s current level of sexual interest in the robot?”; and “If a robot oversteps the accepted bounds of sexual behaviour with a human, who is responsible and what should be the legal consequences?” We discuss these issues and speculate on how the sex robots of the future will be able to conform to the ethics of consent.
人类同意与机器人发生性关系的一些方面
关于与机器人发生性关系的伦理争论的一部分涉及与机器人发生性关系是否构成对机器人的强奸。因此,我们有必要讨论几十年后同意的界限,即人类对机器人的同意。当人类同意或不同意机器人的性邀请或求爱时,性爱机器人的前景会是什么样子?性爱机器人将对其人类伴侣负有责任,如果它未能履行这些责任,将面临道德和法律后果。许多谴责性爱机器人即将问世的人所采用的尚未解决的伦理论点是,机器人无法提供有意义的性同意表示,因此,人类决定与机器人发生性关系是对机器人的强奸。一个尚未解决的平行问题是,在什么情况下,机器人应该被认为对人类有不恰当或非法的性行为?这个问题也包含了其他一些问题,包括:“一个机器人如何能在一定程度上确定一个亲近的人是否想要或至少同意发生性行为?”“在#MeToo(我也是)运动的背景下,当机器人正在探索人类目前对它的性兴趣水平时,它的哪些行为是被允许的?”以及“如果一个机器人超越了与人类发生性行为的可接受范围,谁应该对此负责,法律后果应该是什么?”我们讨论了这些问题,并推测未来的性爱机器人将如何符合同意的伦理。
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