{"id":73578,"date":"2017-10-29T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia"},"modified":"2017-10-29T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:02:30","slug":"saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to robot Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMrX08PxUNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Revised post) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Arab News, the official outlet of the Royal Saudis, proudly reported of Saudi Arabia being \u201cthe first country to grant a robot citizenship\u201d. Below is a more sober account of this publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic for a country ruled by fundamentalist zealots to equate a machine to humans. What \u2018citizenship\u2019 means in an absolute monarchy which executes more of its human \u2018citizens\u2019 than ISIS and where women aren\u2019t allowed to walk alone? Very little. That may be why the Saudi royals could afford pull such a stunt without considering the resulting legal and moral quagmire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.dw.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia\/a-41150856\">http:\/\/m.dw.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia\/a-41150856<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Revised post) Arab News, the official outlet of the Royal Saudis, proudly reported of Saudi Arabia being \u201cthe first country to grant a robot citizenship\u201d. Below is a more sober account of this publicity stunt. It is ironic for a country ruled by fundamentalist zealots to equate a machine to humans. What \u2018citizenship\u2019 means in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}