A former senior executive at Google has a bold prediction about sex in the future: robots powered by artificial intelligence could remove the need for a human partner in the bedroom.
Mo Gawdat, who was chief business officer for Google’s clandestine research-and-development arm X, said that AI will bring a “redesign of love and relationships” in that people won’t be able to tell the difference between real and artificial sex.
Humans are apparently on the cusp of simulating sex through virtual reality and augmented reality headsets such as Apple’s Vision Pro or a Quest 3, Gawdat told YouTube host Tom Bilyeu of the “Impact Theory” podcast.
This would be a step up from pleasure dolls like Harmony.
The headsets combined with AI-powered bots will trick people into thinking that the sex robot is fully real, according to Gawdat.
“Just think about all of the illusions that we’re now unable to decipher,” Gawdat told Bilyeu.
“But if we can convince you that this sex robot is alive, or that sex experience in a virtual reality headset or an augmented reality headset is alive, it’s real, then there you go.”
Gawdat says that new tech will enable computer systems to link into the human brain and make it think it is interacting with another flesh-and-blood partner.
“If we think a few years further and think of Neuralink and other ways of connecting directly to your nervous system, and why would you need another being in the first place?” Gawdat said.
Gawdat said that even the mental and emotional stimuli of sexual intercourse can be recreated artificially.
“It’s all signals in your brain that you enjoy companionship and sexuality, and — if you really want to take the magic out of it — it can be simulated,” he said.
Gawdat said whether an AI is “sentient” or not doesn’t matter; rather’s only about the user experience.
