Joe Rogan has warned that it will be “game over for the human race” should robot sex dolls become more convincingly human-like in their development.

The implications of advancing artificial intelligence (AI) have been a hot-button topic in recent years. In Hollywood, for example, everyone from actors to writers, production teams, and maybe even directors are seemingly at risk of being replaced by AI.

In January, the Concept Art Association and the Animation Guild surveyed 300 entertainment industry leaders and discovered that three-fourths expected AI to abolish, reduce or merge positions at their companies. Researchers estimated that approximately 204,000 jobs will be negatively impacted by the shift before 2026—roughly 20 percent of industry roles.

Joe Rogan is pictured on April 13, 2024, in Las Vegas. The podcaster has discussed the possible impact of robot sex dolls on the human population. Joe Rogan is pictured on April 13, 2024, in Las Vegas. The podcaster has discussed the possible impact of robot sex dolls on the human population. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

During a recent episode of his podcast, Rogan went elsewhere in his own predictions as he discussed the possible impact of robot sex dolls on the human population.

Experts have previously predicted that robots will one day be so advanced they will have the ability to love and suffer. People have spoken of having relationships with AI-created personas but the current generation of so-called “sexbots,” although uncannily lifelike in appearance, nevertheless are not sentient.

However, with technology constantly evolving, Rogan told his podcast guests—writer and stand-up comic Francis Foster and political commentator Konstantin Kisin—that he foresees a dip in human reproduction rates caused by sex robots.

“I think what’s going to get us is the robot sex dolls,” Rogan told his guests. “In America, the number of men that are single is very high. The amount of men that haven’t had sex in over a year is very high. And there are a lot of people that are just locked into their computers, and they’re just on their computer all the time, it’s super, super common.

“If something came along that allowed—with these exponential increases in technology—what you’re seeing with these AI programs now, really stunning visuals that they can create in seconds. In minutes, they could have like a short film. It’s crazy what they can do now.

“If they can do that with a physical moving object, like if they can get a real humanoid object that has perfect features and is your girlfriend and is warm and sweet and gives you everything you want from a human, it’s game over. It’s game over for the human race.”

“Like, if I was artificial intelligence, I wouldn’t kill everybody. I would just let them die off,” the former Fear Factor host went on. “The most humane way to do it is to let them realize that they’re unnecessary and there’s no need to have kids when you can f*** your Jennifer Lopez robot and that’s what they would do.

“They would just live with their robots, and no one would have real relations anymore. It would go away so quick. Then they would start having robot babies so women that want kids, you’d just have a robot baby since you can’t have a regular baby, they’d just give you this baby. This baby will stay a baby forever,” he said.

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