ETHICAL ASPECTS OF CREATING ROBOTS WITH THE FUNCTION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTION WITH A PERSON

Today robotics is one of the fastest growing industries. In 2015, the average robot density was 92 units in Europe, 86 in the USA and 57 in Asia. It should be noted that it is not only industrial robots, but also social, which actively are used to our daily life. As for the entertainment robots, about 1.7 million units were sold in 2015, which is more by 29% of 2014. Undoubtedly, the social robotics market will only continue to grow in the future. Today many discussions are devoted to the use of robots in the sexual services. This topic has been discussed in the scientific discourse for several years. Two conferences under the title “International Congress on love and sex with robots” 2016 (London), which attracted experts from the whole world, saw the future society in which sex robots are the accepted norm. To what extent is the society ready to the emergence of such type of robots? How does define physiological interaction with the robots according to the established moral norms? How may the appearance of such robots change our society? Do the experts see this as a threat? This article covers the basic positions of researchers at the present moment. Among the researchers attitude to the appearance of such robots is ambiguous. Some of them have the negative attitude to this idea. Kathleen Richardson, from Monfort University in Leicester (UK), is an active opponent of the women's and children's interface, Android sex robots, as she perceives them as an infringement of the rights of women and sees the danger of the proliferation of pedophilia in them. Other researchers such as David Levy and Ian Pearson, etc. believe the creation of sex robots is a natural phenomenon. The biological anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University suggests that love depends on three key components: sex, romance and deep affection. She notes these components can be triggered by various kinds of things including robots. According to the universal principles of bioethics, the sex robots are reasonable and are the result of development of modern technologies. If we move from level to level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs inductively, it can be assumed that satisfaction of the needs of each stage will make the sex robot more desired subject of the relationship in the future up to the recognition of the civil rights of artificial intelligence. Understanding how people think is only possible, when reconstructed his body and intellect together, due to the fact that our physical form of existence largely determines our thinking. However, the creation of a humanoid interface robot with such functions demonstrates the moral challenges, and this is due to the need to examine the views both members of the expert community and public opinion on this issue. A more detailed study of this question will allow to create such an approach in ethics which will allow to derive maximum benefit from the use of the technologies and minimize risks.

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