«Saudi government recently granted citizenship to a female robot. That robot has been able to do things in public that Saudi women, actual human ones, are forbidden from doing. And that's a great example of what happens when you don't believe in real people»
https://logicmag.io/05-everybodys-brain-knows-how-to-run-a-tail/
@mark
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)
not sure how I missed this when it happened