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Natural selection will take care of that. Expect the instinctual uncanny valley effect to get much stronger as soon as being disgusted and afraid of sexbots becomes essential selection criteria for reproductive success.

Cloning mammals is doable, including growing the resulting mammalian embryos in artificial wombs. Genetic modification to make deliberately defective animals who need regular drugs (insulin) to survive is doable. Doing all this to humans is just one mad scientist away.

Bad idea. Not that it wouldn't hypothetically work, but that it'd be putting an unacceptable degree of power in the hands of unelected technocratic oligarchs, again. Suddenly, only people in the cloning vat company's good books can reproduce and their children all "accidentally" have a new...