We've gotten very comfortable with artificial intelligence. But are we ready to get intimate with it?

Companies like Abyss Creations, which makes the really realistic sex dolls RealDoll, have started to imbue their silicone women (and sometimes men) with AI, sensors, heaters, and robotics to stimulate by simulating. Sex robots haven't started to ship yet but they will soon and when they do, the relationship between AI and humans will forever be changed.

Dating site SaucyDates.com endeavors to connect real humans, but perhaps faced with constant feedback on how that can fail, it asked its members whether they'd have sex with an AI-powered robot. Thirty-one percent of men and 26 percent of women who responded said that they would. One 44-year-old woman from Seattle who was surveyed said, "Eliminate relationships and still have good sex. Hmm."

Sex robots won't eliminate relationships, though. If anything, they can make relationships more complicated. Issues such as consent and even family dynamics will still come into play, and like any AI that comes into the world, we'll have to further investigate what it means to be human to navigate it.

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