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Regulating Child Sex Robots: Restriction or Experimentation?

John Danaher1

  • 1School of Law, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.

Medical Law Review
|April 3, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Child sex robots, proposed as a treatment for pedophilia, face regulatory scrutiny. Research suggests this hypothesis may not be testable, warranting extreme caution with this technology.

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Area of Science:

  • Ethics
  • Robotics
  • Sociology

Background:

  • The concept of using child sex robots as a therapeutic tool for individuals with pedophilic tendencies was proposed by roboticist Ronald Arkin in 2014.
  • This proposal has generated significant debate regarding the regulation of such technologies, with legal authorities in the UK and US moving to ban them.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically examine the regulatory attitudes towards child sex robots.
  • To propose a framework for evaluating regulatory options for this technology.
  • To assess the viability of using child sex robots as a treatment for pedophilia.

Main Methods:

  • Critical analysis of existing regulatory approaches.
  • Development of a conceptual framework for regulatory options.
  • Evaluation of the testability of Ronald Arkin's hypothesis regarding therapeutic use.

Main Results:

  • A framework for considering regulatory options for child sex robots is presented.
  • A conditional case for restrictive regulation is established, dependent on the testability of Arkin's hypothesis.
  • The hypothesis that child sex robots can treat pedophilic predilections is deemed unlikely to be successfully tested.

Conclusions:

  • Proceed with extreme caution regarding the development and regulation of child sex robot technology.
  • The therapeutic application of child sex robots for pedophilia lacks a reasonable prospect of successful testing.
  • Current regulatory trends toward prohibition may be justified given the unproven nature of the proposed therapeutic benefits.
Keywords:
Child sex robotsEthicsPaedophiliaRegulationSexual boundaries

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