Saudi Arabia grants the citizenship to Sophia, a robot humanoid

The Saudi Arabia became the first country of the history to make of a robot a real citizen, according to TechCrunch. This humanoid was called Sophia, was created by Hanson Robotics appeared for the first time in public October 25th during the economic forum Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh. On this occasion, she was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin, journalist of CNBC.

In the video of the interview, which you can view below, the robot shows rather impressive capacities among which of the rather convincing facial expressions, allowing to indicate his humor, or still its words on the presence of consciousness to robots.
"Why it would be bad?", answers very seriously Sophia the rather provocating question of Andrew Ross Sorkin. The robot and the journalist exchange then on the theory of the disturbing valley, according to which, the more a robot looks like a human being, the more its imperfections seem to us monstrous.

"Am I really if flippante? If it is the case, make with! I have the impression that people sometimes prefer to speak with me that with real human beings. I want to use my artificial intelligence to help the human beings live a better life, to design more intelligent houses, cities more adapted in the future, etc."
Incapable to answer the following question (or avoiding deliberately the question because she wants to destroy us), Sophia explains then that she was built according to values human as wisdom, kindness, condolence and empathy.

The interview looks very prepared, even written, even if according to his creators Sophia is capable of fluid interactions with the human beings, adapting itself to their environment and capable of learning of this one. Hanson Robotics was inspired by the actress Audrey Hepburn for its appearance and has already considered him of the "the most beautiful and most celebrated robot".

As regards its nationality, it is more a big operation of com ', because, as the paper TechCrunch, we do not know how still too much the international laws apply to the populations endowed with an artificial intelligence. What makes a little stains in this history, and what the Internet users immediately pointed out on Twitter, it is that Sophia seems, as robot, to arrange more rights than the Saudi women and the immigrant workers living on the spot.