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Sex robots will soon be able to cheat on their human owners and cover it up with convincing LIES.

That's according to Rebejah Rousi, a cognitive science researcher at the University of Jyvaskla in Finland.

She spoke at the Third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots in London about the evolving relationships between humans and robots, focusing on cheating.

"What does it mean for human robot relationships?” she asked via a video link to the gathering of other researchers.

“Will humans be able to compete with the physical and intellectual attraction of their robot counterparts, particularly if they’re looking for the perfect and ideal partner.

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“We have to consider if robots will have their own sexual desires and what will motivate these desires,” she told the conference, which also deals with topics like cloning, robot personalities and teledildonics.

Rousi is an expert in human interaction with technology and suggested that as our robotic partners get more sophisticated, they will naturally want to take control.

“If the end goal is to create autonomous robots that are capable of independent thinking and feeling, the chances of humans maintaining power within these relationships is quite marginal,” she said, according to the Daily Star .

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She cited an experiment where robots were designed to co-operate in searching out good resources and avoiding bad ones.

There were 1,000 'bots involved in the study and they got higher marks for finding the limited good resources. The best-scoring 200 were then "mated" to produce a new version of artificial intelligence. After 500 generations had been created, the researchers found that 60% of robots would start to hoard the good resources - effectively lying to others.

“A study showed that generations of robots became increasingly clever when identifying a positive resource in an experiment," explained Rousi.

“In the beginning, they helped others identify where the positive resource was, but they soon realised they’d be bumped away by overcrowding.

“By the 500th generation of robot, they found that robots were indeed lying about finding a positive resource so they could indeed keep it to themselves.”

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Advancements in technology also bring with them serious issues surrounding morals and the legal status of such sex robots.

Ethics expert Professor Robin MacKenzie of Kent Law School said: "Sex, law and ethics will never be the same.

"Sooner than we think, technologists will create sentient, self-aware sexbots, capable of emotional/sexual intimacy.

"Under existing legal and ethical standards, sex between consenting adult humans is permissible, as is sex between humans and things.

"Humans having sex with other humans who are unable to consent to sex, like children and adults lacking decision-making capacity, is seen as unlawful and unethical.

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"So is human/animal sex. Such groups are recognised as sentient beings who cannot consent to sex with interests in need of protection.

"Sentient, self-aware sexbots created to engage in emotional/sexual intimacy with humans disrupt this tidy model.

"They are not humans, though they will look like us, feel like us to touch and act as our intimate and sexual partners.

"While they will be manufactured, potentially from biological components, their sentience, self-awareness and capacity for relationships with humans mean that they cannot simply be categorized as things or animals."

Professor McKenzie is an expert on ethical and medical aspects of neuroscience, and as a member of the EU funded FET Flagship Initiative Robot Companions for Citizens Ethics and Society Working Group, is investigating the ethical and legal implications of the creation of sentient robots as companions for citizens, particularly as the European population ages.

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She said: "Where does this leave future sexbots? In order for intimacy to be achieved, degrees of sentience, subjectivity and autonomy must be built-in design features.

"This implies a central aspect of legal personhood: the capacity to decide whether to consent to or refuse sex, and to have that decision upheld by the law.

"Yet full legal personhood entails further, far-reaching civic responsibilities and rights. Should we extend these to sexbots, including the right to marry? Or should we accept that we will engage in unethical, exploitative sexual and emotional intimacies with subordinate sentient beings created and sold for that purpose, however close to sexual slavery or bestiality this may be?

"Future sentient, self-aware sexbots thus raise profound ethical and legal issues. These must be resolved urgently, before they appear."