Coyote Con: Robot/AI Sexuality
May. 9th, 2010 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraThis was another really good panel. There were lots of questions raised that could lead to good stories, and once the transcript is posted I'll put it here (my browser kicked me out partway through, so I lost the first half).
Resources
[kalcobalt] 3:45 pm: ah! Thanks, Deena. I should put in a brief plug: my
website, www.kalcobalt.com, has LOTS of links both to nonfiction and fiction
regarding AI and sexuality (and most of it is free).
[kalcobalt] 3:46 pm: (At present the links are a bit buried in the information
nal posts -- website overhaul coming soon.)
10 Things You Always
Wanted to Know About Robot Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by Kal Cobalt:
http://www.circlet.com/?p=48
Questions this raised for me
How might the concept of "consent" apply to AIs, purpose-designed or otherwise? (I know there's no firm answer, but I'm interested in your thoughts.)
How does the consent issue change with AIs that are purpose-designed or not purpose-designed? How about "adulthood" as it applies to being able to grant consent with the learning neural nets approach to AI?
A ball of interrelated questions--Other than "romantic interest," how do you think sexualizing AIs might change the stories that are told about them? And how might gender performativity and expectations be superimposed onto AIs once that occurs? Do we have to watch out for the "noble savage" approach to AIs? How should/might their motivations differ from a human in such a relationship?
Resources
[kalcobalt] 3:45 pm: ah! Thanks, Deena. I should put in a brief plug: my
website, www.kalcobalt.com, has LOTS of links both to nonfiction and fiction
regarding AI and sexuality (and most of it is free).
[kalcobalt] 3:46 pm: (At present the links are a bit buried in the information
nal posts -- website overhaul coming soon.)
10 Things You Always
Wanted to Know About Robot Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by Kal Cobalt:
http://www.circlet.com/?p=48
Questions this raised for me
How might the concept of "consent" apply to AIs, purpose-designed or otherwise? (I know there's no firm answer, but I'm interested in your thoughts.)
How does the consent issue change with AIs that are purpose-designed or not purpose-designed? How about "adulthood" as it applies to being able to grant consent with the learning neural nets approach to AI?
A ball of interrelated questions--Other than "romantic interest," how do you think sexualizing AIs might change the stories that are told about them? And how might gender performativity and expectations be superimposed onto AIs once that occurs? Do we have to watch out for the "noble savage" approach to AIs? How should/might their motivations differ from a human in such a relationship?