What are your thoughts on the A.I. (Sophia Robot) that just became a Citizen in Saudi Arabia?

@Faust76 The citizenship was in the question. What are your thoughts on the A.I. (Sophia Robot) that just became a Citizen in Saudi Arabia? Maybe I should have typed it differently?

@Faust76 I found the article you took your original response from. Bravo...but not sure if it's a legit source. All other sources point to her having citizenship.

The headline is perhaps unfortunate, you'll note the article itself talks about the robot having been granted citizenship. I think the point is that they disagree that it is an independent person that could be a "citizen", which I do too, I'd just word it differently. It was my understanding that the robot in question is just an animatronic puppet with essentially pre-recorded responses to a few key words, and so I went looking for a reference/proof to that.

The immediate concern would be that this technically allows oil sheiks to buy as many "androids" as they can afford to vote for them. So you see the citizenship or extra vote is really granted to the owner, not to an independent entity. A bad editorial decision on headlining the story, maybe, not "fake news".

@pedrohedgerow They will never have the real empathy.

@Pitchblue Can't replace real women with fake. They can't give birth.

@Marceline lol

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout She was made in Hong Kong.

lolz..

@Jackaloftheazuresand :o

@Jackaloftheazuresand But wait....will they care about saving the planet if they can't feel??? If they destroy the planet worse than we are then they will have no future for themselves, and also no one to fix them. ;)

@SW-User So you're not concerned?

@PoisonLace I'm more concerned about a calculator turning into Bigfoot.

@SW-User lol :)

@Foxgirl Or The Matrix.

@katielass Technically, since she's not human or capable of giving birth she doesn't have to.

@PoisonLace Oh I wasn't sure how that worked. I wonder if the stranger ones will try to have sex with her. lol Ignore me, I;m just being silly.

@katielass lol you can tell she's a robot...and I'd assume they wouldn't get anywhere. Drunks may try, but it's still funny to imagine them even trying.

@SW-User Why do you say that? Just wondering.

@Xuan12 It's definitely real. They just made her a citizen, and I think it's premature and crazy.