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).
The focus of the project is to raise awareness about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on women* and their sexuality. In addition, a focus of our project is how ethical and socio-political implications of AI in sex robots have an impact on the equality of women* in our European society. Today, AI is being developed worldwide, applied in a variety of systems - some of them discriminatory - and will significantly influence many areas of our lives. AI and robotics are becoming increasingly present in many areas of life, including those of women*. The main problem here is the use of basic training data from the past, which is used to train AI and its machine applications. Often these already contain biases. In addition, the world and value concepts of the developers have a strong influence on the results of a later AI decision within robotics. Unfortunately, we still see strong deficits in the participation and involvement of women* in the development of AI.