Sophia the robot was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia last month , but a lot of people weren’t happy about it. Some noted the grim irony of a robot receiving ‘rights’ in a country where women were only recently allowed to drive. Others said it set a bad precedent for how we might treat robots in future. (AI ethicist Joanna Bryson told The Verge the stunt was “ obviously bullshit .”) Some were annoyed about the perception of Sophia itself — a robot that’s also a media star, with magazine cover-