[ExI] Could You (Will You) Marry a Robot?

[BillK]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 22:02, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Can sufficiently advanced robots and computer programs provide companionship and/or erotic stimulus. sure. Mentally ill people can find those in all sorts of places.
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> But marriage? If marriage ever had anything to do with romantic commitment, let alone sex, let alone childrearing, the last 50 years of activist jurisprudence have thoroughly severed that attachment.
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Well, I guess even the advanced AI robots that the article is
discussing would not be able to produce children.
Although, this might not be a problem. The birth rate throughout the
Western world is already collapsing, as younger people decide either
that they don't want children, or they can't afford the costs of
rearing them.
If the AI robots have not achieved legal personhood, then legal
marriage, inheritance, etc, would not apply.
Then we would have to change the question.
Would you live with an AI robot as "friends with benefits" for companionship?

BillK