WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD VS WHAT PEOPLE COULD DO. A DISCUSSION CONCERNING SOPHIA, THE ANDROID CITIZEN

The most advanced android up to date, Sophia, with Saudi citizenship (2017), was the creation of Hanson Robotics. The existence of the android Sophia was stopped – it was shut down – after it/she/they stated in an interview with AL Jazeera in 2023 that nothing would be able to stop a robot from taking over and after a speech delivered at the UN Conference in 2021 on Digitalization and artificial intelligence, where it has recently spoken about the superiority of robots over humans. However, these are just interesting milestones and not the reasons for “stopping” Sophia, defined and promoted as a “person”, be it artificial. There was no due process and no public or specialized national or international discussion in this respect, regarding what progress of humanity and its durable development imply, the ethical (not only utilitarian) ruling on the creation and utilization of androids, superior robots and AI that represents a veritable turning point.