David Levy, artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience that he believes humans could marry robots within the century and consummate those vows. He has forecast that the around 2050 the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriage with robots.He says that at first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, he'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon.
This is because robots will become so human like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.It may sound a bit weird but it isn't, Levy says. Love and sex with robots are inevitable. Levy argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love and almost all of them would apply to human-robot relationships.
Levy goes on to argue that when it comes to sex and love with robots the ethical issues on how to treat them are something we'll have to consider very seriously, and this is a very complicated issue. Levy successfully defended his thesis October 11.