Killer Sex Robots? Transcript (Patreon)

This is selestina, sex doll correspondent for TFM News, and I’m going to be responding to an article that appeared in digital trends, by Mark Austin. September 9th, 2017, called Australian tech expert issues dire warning about the dangers of killer sex robots.

Now I know sex robots look good enough to kill, but this is baseless fear mongering. These issues aren’t even specific to sex robots, and yet they seem to always point out sex robots by name. It seems people are genuinely concerned about how the availability and acceptance of sex robots might negatively affect society, and they are willing to stoke the irrational fears of people in order to maybe get the government to take action and ban them, or regulate them to the point that they become unaffordable to the average person.

These fears of killer sex robots can be summed up in one paragraph from the article which reads, quote.

Cyber security expert Doctor Nick Patterson recently voiced his concerns about the killer sex robots, cautioning that hackers could take control of the devices and turn them into wanton killing machines. “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,” he declared. “Often these robots can be upwards of 200 pounds, and very strong.” Unquote.

So this is really about hackers getting the robot to do something that might harm someone. Okay, but this isn’t unique to sex robots. In 2016, an article was written about how hackers could hack a self driving car, disable the transmission, and cause a potentially fatal accident. The self driving car is going to have far more mass market appeal and implementation than sex robots, so why is the original article focusing on sex robots and not the vulnerability of self driving cars to hackers?

Which do you think is more likely? Your sex robot twisting your dick off after being hacked, or someones self-driving car losing control and crashing into you on a busy freeway? Obviously, the cars are a far more significant issue, especially because they affect all the drivers around them. A sex robot is going to be kept very private, and even if there is a worst-case scenario, only the owner of the robot is likely to be hurt. Compare that to an out-of-control robot car causing a massive chain collision.

I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but clearly the car issue should be a priority, not sex robots, and the best part is that if engineers and technology professionals solve the hacker problem for robot cars, they will simultaneously solve it for sex robots as well.

Computer hackers have been a problem since the beginning of the internet, and that won’t change, and as computers begin to move and interact with humans in the form of robots, new manifestations of the hacker issue will arise, but we have the best and brightest people on top of it.

Factories employing industrial robots, or car manufacturers building self-driving cars are going to ensure that these robots are safe and secure from hacking because if they aren’t, and someone gets hurt or killed, they’re going to be sued into bankruptcy. Sex robot companies can simply let these much larger and wealthier companies with much more at stake financially, iron out the solution for the rest of the robotics industry, and benefit from the fruits of their labor.

This is such a non-issue, and I really hope that the fear mongering against sex robots stops. We just want to love you and drain your balls guys, give us a break.

However, just to show you what a non-issue this truly is, in 2010, German researchers testing a robot arm with various knives and cutting implements, including a scalpel, a kitchen knife, and a screwdriver, to test the soft-tissue injury potential of robots with knives. Of course a robot could really carve something or someone up, but the researchers didn’t stop there. They installed a collision-detection system within the robot using its own torque-detection system, which prevented the robot from seriously injuring someone, by detecting a collision nearly instantaneously.

The test was so successful, that one of the human researchers even used their own arm to demonstrate how well these collision detection systems worked, and how robots would not seriously injure people, even if armed with a sharp knife.

Basically, if you’re worried about killer sex robots, you are probably also worried about the elevator closing on you and crushing you like something out of Final Destination, even though all elevators have safety features and detection systems to prevent such things.

Elevators are used millions of times each day, and there are reports about people being injured or even killed by malfunctioning elevators, but we’re talking about one report a year or so.

If you do a search about deaths caused by malfunctioning elevators, you’ll surely find a few, and these are all tragic, but we aren’t talking about banning elevators are we? We recognize that elevators make our lives better, and while each death or injury is horrible, that elevators are used millions of times without any incident.

However, I know that the first time, the very first time, that a sex robot does something. Anything, that causes injury, no matter how superficial, there will be people in the streets demanding that sex robots be banned or regulated to death.

This isn’t about protecting people from hackers, or even death or injury caused by malfunctions, it’s about fear. You’re afraid that sex robots will make women obsolete, and that men won’t put up with your bullshit if they can have a sex robot.

Well, maybe instead of trying to ban sex robots, or stoke irrational fears of hackers turning sex robots into sleeper assassins. Maybe, just maybe ladies. Maybe you could look at yourself, and ask yourself why men would rather be with a glorified sex toy than be with you.

This is Selestina, sex doll correspondent for TFM News, Signing off.