Comments on: Samantha-bot Is a Sex Doll That Needs to Be Seduced: Step Forward or Step Back?

By: Sergio Santos

Sergio Santos — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:06:00 +0000

In reply to Jenna Owsianik. Dear Jenna, I emailed you. It's fine. I just don't like the way you give publicity to such a woman in this text. I still find ridiculous the comments of that woman and extremely insulting. She definitely seems to not be able to solve differences via simple dialogue. I removed her from my skype account until she either apologizes directly, or gives a good explanation to ignore, both my wife and my other female partner, to the point of pretending they were not there. My female friend felt extremely insulted to have spent her time in the skype interview and not to even be mentioned, to the extent of claiming she wasn't there.

By: Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:38:00 +0000

In reply to Sergio Santos.

Hi Sergio,

Thanks for your comment and sorry for the time it’s taken me to respond. At Future of Sex, we’re certainly one of the groups who believe in the opportunity that sexual robotics will be able to offer people in the future and commend you and other developers for sharing your progress with the public.

As you insinuated, there’s a lot of negative press out there against developers in sex tech. We do aim to cover a range of perspectives happening in the mainstream media in order to push discussion forward in a positive way, and of course speaking to developers themselves is an important part of that.

I’d really like to speak to you to learn more about your progress with Samantha firsthand and to publish an article with this focus. If you are interested, please let me know the best way to contact you. My email is editor@futureofsex.net

-Jenna
Editor of FutureofSex.net

By: Sergio Santos

Sergio Santos — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:08:00 +0000

At the time the interview at MIC took place, 2 females in my team were present and giving opinions on decisions we made and why we have done what we have done. I believe it was easy to say, made by men for men. It inst. In my team there are more females than males. My wife to start with and others that maybe are scared to say their names because of the bad publicity people might give them.

When I started the project, only 5 people knew. 4 females one male plus me. So the origins are more influenced by female.

In the end, if someone wants to know the truth, ask me, or my colleagues that work with me.

Best regards and thank you for the article anyway. It’s just that this lady at MIC took it too far.

Sergi