Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia for some reason

 Saudi Arabia has bestowed a non-human woman with citizenship, making it the first country to make a robot a citizen, at least as far as we know. Why it did so isn’t immediately evident, but the irony of a nation infamous for denying basic rights to its female citizens imbuing a robotic Audrey Hepburn lookalike with rights is not lost on us. The robot, known as Sophia, appeared on… Read More