About this episode
The episode discusses the ethical implications of cheating with a robot servant and how we should treat robots.
In "Subservience" Megan Fox plays a robot servant who goes off the rails, seduces her owner, and tries to kill his wife. Henrique Couto joins to discuss the ethical implications of cheating on your spouse with a robot, how we ought to treat robots even if they don't really have consciousness, and whether or not we'd buy robot servants in general.
People in this episode
Host: Andrew Heaton
Guest: Henrique Couto
Topics covered
- robot ethics
- infidelity
- artificial intelligence
- relationships
- comedy
Keywords
- sexbot
- robot servant
- ethical implications
- cheating
- Megan Fox
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