SEXROBOTER - Zukunft und Tabu - Ethische und gesellschaftliche Implikationen auf FRAUen*

The main goal of the project is to prevent sex robots from perpetuating the inequality of female and non-binary persons in our society. This is to be achieved by developing ethical guidelines and ...

The main goal of the project is to prevent sex robots from perpetuating the inequality of female and non-binary persons in our society. This is to be achieved by developing ethical guidelines and thus providing a direction that indicates ethical, moral and legal principles for the development and use of sex robots. The guidelines are intended to develop and implement international standards and thus identify and communicate a "status quo". On the one hand, attention (creating awareness) should be drawn to sex robots and AI in sexuality, the knowledge of staff in adult education should be expanded and they should be sensitised to the topic. So that they can in turn act as multipliers and involve a larger audience. On the other hand, we wanted to enter into a dialogue with decision-makers and, in particular, involve female participants in the decision-making process throughout the entire process. In addition, we informed women* as an indirect target group about our project via social media (visually) and a podcast (acoustically).

As organisations we have gained experience in project management with European context and partners. Important competences related to language, media and breaking down cultural barriers were built during the project. New common needs and priorities in the areas of general aduelt education were developed. These experiences supported the change towards a European thinking and acting organisation. Materials (consolidation paper, survey results, guidelines, English language webinar) for education staff in Germany, Italy and Spain in the three national languages and English were produced and made available for use. These materials contain the results of the literature and desk research as well as the online survey and the workshops. On this basis, the first version of ethical guidelines for the development of sex robots has been developed and published. Furthermore, the podcast series on the topic of sex robots and AI is available for our target group and other interested parties, as is a recording of an online webinar in English. In addition, a second project was carried out building on this and in parallel.