Humanity First, Not Humanoids

Almost every movie freak knows “The Matrix”. If you haven’t watched it yet, let me spoil your story. In “The Matrix” a self-aware artificial intelligence system (commonly known as ‘machines’) has wiped out most of the human race from the earth and start PRODUCING cyberpunk humans in a vast farm of artificial matrices.

After that movie I was in different state of mind. Because they were not human, but they were not robots either, but at the end it was a movie/fiction. (No I’m not here to discuss about THE MATRIX).

Last week I read a news I’m sure you all did , Sophia, an intelligent humanoid robot, had been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia on Oct, 26, 2017, as part of a publicity stunt at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh. Well, I couldn’t stop thinking about “The Matrix”. Fiction is about to be real, not yet though. it will take a century or centuries but sure it will.

2nd part of the news is Saudi Arabia going to give legal status to a humanoid robot. Without any doubt, this is historical being the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship. However, no details of the condition of her citizenship were revealed.

It means A (kind of) woman without any male escort and without any hijab is a Saudi national now. As far as I know when a woman marries to a foreigner she loses her status of being Saudi national. Even her kids will no longer be treated as Saudis. For me this is not humanity, not at any condition a woman should be deprived of her identity. She is a Saudi by birth and no one can deny this, neither can throw her away from her homeland.

Now about three days ago a news was circulating on social media that Saudi Arabia beheaded Sofia, the AI woman. The crowed started stoning her then tied a chain around her neck and drove her through the streets until her head detached from her body.
After hearing this kind of news from Saudia where death penalty is in practice for a wide range of offences which are not even considered as the “most serious crimes” among international laws and so-called human rights activists, you start judging like a human. But the fun part is this news was from an authentic FAKE NEWS blog i.e. duffelblog.com. Well done guys for demonstrating your dark sense of humour.

To my inferior knowledge, this whole venture is nothing more than a mockery. Depriving the humans of their basic rights and providing the robots with privileges they don’t even know, is a serious contempt to humanity. Isn’t it?