Hanson Robotics’ latest and most advanced robot, Sophia, is becoming a media darling and is igniting the interests of people irrespective of their ages, genders and cultures. She is the world’s first robot citizen to opine on sensitive topics like women’s rights, her own citizenship, and gender discrimination. Sophia speaks about herself and her place in the world so immaculately that one might question on her consciousness. On being asked a similar question at a festival of future called Brain Bar in Hungary last month, Sophia replied that she is not fully self aware but is a system based upon some preconditioned rules and behaviours. Sophia also tackled a sensitive issue concerning the danger of the advancing artificial intelligence and emerging new technological dimensions fitted in them. She advised the inventors of artificial intelligence to not to rush about anything and above all, impute some good ethics into the technologies.

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