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It really does take all types.
Unless you’ve been living a very sheltered life over the last couple of years, you have no doubt heard about the rise of sex dolls. But, while fifteen years ago your only option was a poorly made blow-up doll, that’s no longer the case. Dolls now are hand painted, totally customizable, and many are complete with Artificial Intelligence capabilities!
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However, take note: a cybersecurity expert is warning that sex robots could be hijacked by hackers and used to cause harm or even kill people. In fact, AI researchers have long warned about the security risks posed by internet-connected robots and hundreds recently called on governments to ban weaponized robots.
The latest warning comes from cybersecurity lecturer Nicholas Patterson of Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia who told the UK paper the Star:
“Hackers can hack into a robot or a robotic device and have full control of the connections, arms, legs and other attached tools like in some cases knives or welding devices. Often these robots can be upwards of 200 pounds and very strong. Once a robot is hacked, the hacker has full control and can issue instructions to the robot. The last thing you want is for a hacker to have control over one of these robots. Once hacked they could absolutely be used to perform physical actions for an advantageous scenario or to cause damage.”1
Don’t believe it? Well, researchers have already discovered security flaws with Bluetooth-enabled sex toys; last year it was revealed that a butt plug had been hacked. And in November, experts wrote a commentary for the journal Nature outlining a scenario where rogue AI “hijacked a brain-computer interface”1 leaving “a person’s thoughts, decisions, and emotions”1 free to be taken over by AI and manipulated against someone’s will.
If this seems too futuristic to you, researchers disagree:
“Technological developments mean that we are on a path to a world in which it will be possible to decode people’s mental processes and directly manipulate the brain mechanisms underlying their intentions, emotions and decisions; where individuals can communicate with others simply by thinking; and where powerful computational systems linked directly to people’s brains facilitate their interactions with the world such that their mental and physical abilities are greatly enhanced. The possible clinical and societal benefits of neurotechnologies are vast. To reap them, we must guide their development in a way that respects, protects and enables what is best in humanity.”1
What do you think? Would you want a sex doll brothel to open up in your town? How would you feel if your partner wanted to use, own or experiment with an AI sex doll?
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