Desire in the Age of Robots and AI

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desiresin short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictateand are in return recreated by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it's a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.

Ties together bioanthropological literature with current events and science fiction to paint a full picture of human-robot desires Explores the iterations of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in literature and film in the light of technological innovations Examines the iterative relationship between fiction and science and challenges the ethics, inclusivity, and diversity of both

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Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She specializes in bioanthropology, and serves as a juror for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Working Class Writers grant. Her work has been published in NEXUS, and in Sexuality & Culture.

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Rebecca Gibson has given us this wonderful book that details how these technologies could have an even more profound influenceredefining that in us which is most human.

Chris Irwin Davis, Ph.D., A.I. Research Scientist

Gibson's book is a delightful and dirty look on what separates us from the machines, and exactly what those differences say about us if they even exist anymore. Jef Rouner, author of The Rook Circle Well researched, engaging, and thought provoking, Dr. Gibson has given humanity a lot to consider when it comes to our desires and creations. A winning combination of entertaining and well documented information and analysis!

Eli Girvin, Talent Analytics Strategy Consultant with IBM

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desiresin short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explores the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictateand are in return recreated by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it's a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex.- Chapter 2. What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity.- Chapter 3. Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner.- Chapter 4. Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms****Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics.- Chapter 5. Moving Toward an Acceptance of Robotic Sexuality through Sci-Fi.