Artificial Intimacy: What happens when evolved mind and old-fashioned cultures encounter 21st Century technology

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New developments in robotics, virtual reality, and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are giving rise to a new type of technologies: the ‘artificial intimacies’. In this talk, evolutionary biologist and UNSW Scientia Professor Rob Brooks will consider some of the applications and implications of artificial intimacy, from matchmaking algorithms to relationships with virtual reality characters to robotic sex dolls. Professor Brooks will discuss the likelihood of sex robots and virtual reality sex becoming mainstream. He will pay particular attention to the many ways in which digital lovers might alter real-world sexual relationships and gender relations.

The Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World Seminar Series brings together interdisciplinary expertise to raise awareness on the issues unique to a society where the physical and the digital are increasingly intertwined. This series is intended for scholars and practitioners from law and other areas who are keen to learn about challenges in a cyber-physical world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.