The Problem of Legal Regulation of Intimate Services: The Use of Artificial Intelligence

The goal is to investigate the activities of providing intimate services by sex robots and the criminalization of this activity. The fact that the new generation of robots will coexist with humans should be taken into account in legislation; it should adapt and regulate issues of great legal significance. Introduction of digital technologies at the modern stage of development of technological processes has changed the quality of economy significantly. Modern level of social interactions involves the change of a plethora of economic processes due to new principles of management that stem from digital innovations, which today manifest themselves in various spheres of life. Since economic processes are continuously changing and Russian Legislation is dynamically developing, a demand has arisen for legislative control of the key mechanisms in digital legal relations as well as for establishing legal regimes in this area. Engineers are working on humanoid AI robots that are supposed to do household tasks and provide various services including sexual ones. These elaborations boost the development of new social relations and cause some ethic, moral, psychological, physiological, and legal problems in the sex industry. The present paper analyzes the issues of sex work involving robotic dolls and contemplates the question of criminalization of this activity. The methodology of our study draws on general scientific and special juridical methods. The authors revealed the formation of a national system of standardization and assessment of the conformity of anthropomorphic sex robots in the field of robotics.