{"id":188,"date":"2017-12-06T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intechsource.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:22:54","slug":"robot-sophia-calling-for-womens-rights-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Robot SOPHIA calling for women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A humanoid robot that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2016\/03\/16\/this-hot-robot-says-she-wants-to-destroy-humans.html\">once said it wanted to destroy humans<\/a>\u00a0is now calling for women&#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia, the chief executive of the company behind it said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The robot, called Sophia and developed by Hong Kong-based firm Hanson Robotics, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2017\/10\/25\/watch-cnbcs-andrew-ross-sorkin-interview-a-lifelike-robot-named-sophia.html\">granted citizenship<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle Eastern nation last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sophia is a big advocate for women&#8217;s rights, for rights of all human beings,&#8221; Hanson Robotics CEO David Hanson said. &#8220;She has been reaching out about women&#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia and about rights for all human beings and all living beings on this planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline_movable_ad\"><\/div>\n<p>Some people had\u00a0<a class=\"inline_asset\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-saudi-robot-citizenship\/saudi-women-riled-by-robot-with-no-hjiab-and-more-rights-than-them-idUSKBN1D14Z7\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0the Islamic kingdom for giving more rights to a machine than to women, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/26\/saudi-king-issues-decree-allowing-women-to-drive-report.html\">up until September<\/a>\u00a0were banned from driving a car.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said that, as well as human rights, the world should be thinking about the rights of machines.<\/p>\n<p>Adding that Sophia is still in an early stage of development, the he said: &#8220;I think we should see the future with respect for all sentient beings and that will include machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humanoid robot that\u00a0once said it wanted to destroy humans\u00a0is now calling for women&#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia, the chief executive of the company behind it said Tuesday. The robot, called Sophia and developed by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texeltech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}