{"id":47372,"date":"2017-10-26T07:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/neom\/en\/lifestyle\/food\/sophia-robot-first-saudi-citizen\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T07:44:49","slug":"sophia-robot-first-saudi-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/neom\/en\/news\/sophia-robot-first-saudi-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sophia The Robot Becomes The First Robot To Be Given A Saudi Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophia, a humanoid artificially intelligent robot became the first robot in the world to receive a Saudi citizenship on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The kingdom announced that they were granting her citizenship, at the Future Investment Initiative conference<\/h3>\n
In the video shared online, Sophia said she was honoured to receive her citizenship.<\/p>\n
“I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship,” she said.<\/p>\n
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She then took a dig at Elon Musk and Hollywood movies for portraying the artificial intelligence in a questionable light in an interview<\/h3>\n
Sophia stood as a symbolic gesture of Saudi Arabia\u2019s plan to include more robots than humans at the mega NEOM project that will see the kingdom build a new city powered by solar and wind energy.<\/p>\n