Robot sex workers may be commonplace by 2025 - Pew Research

With robots taking over more and more jobs, would anyone mind if they also took over as sex partners too?

 

This could be a possibility given advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, according to a report on ExtremeTech.com.

 

"At a bare minimum, a lot of sex workers will probably lose their jobs. If lovotics — the study of human-robot relationships — becomes advanced enough and people start falling in love with their sexbots (or rather partnerbots), then there could be some wide-ranging repercussions," it said.

 

"Previously robots mostly replaced blue-collar workers, but this next wave will increasingly replace skilled/professional white-collar workers. A lot of these specialized workers may find themselves without a job, and without the means to find a new one. We may suddenly see a lot of 50-year-olds going back to university," it added.

 

Citing findings by Pew Research, ExtremeTech said AI and robotics are likely to impact both blue- and white-collar workers, and by 2025 could displace more human jobs than they create.

 

It also quoted GigaOM Research’s Stowe Boyd as saying that by 2025, robotic sex partners will be "commonplace."

 

The site suggested the robotic partners could look like Number Six, a skin-job cylon from Battlestar Galactica in 10 to 20 years.

 

It noted the possibility of a "robot jobocalypse" that could happen so quickly that our economic, education, and political systems "may struggle to keep up." — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News