Every advancement in artificial intelligence technology seems like a step closer to one of Hollywood’s many robot-related dystopias. A robot becomes impossibly good at Ms. Pac-Man? That robot will soon be a Terminator. Robots learn how to track humans even when not on the internet? That will be helpful for when the machines need to herd us together to power their Matrix batteries. Now, the Saudi Arabian government is apparently intent and tossing humanity directly into the Blade Runner future, with CNBC reporting that it has granted citizenship to a “lifelike hot robot named Sophia.” Don’t let the human-like face and voice fool you, though, because—as evidenced by literally everything else—this thing is a machine.

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