"Male" Robot Groped Female Reporter - A Citizen?

WASHINGTON - March 13, 2024 - PRLog -- A "fully autonomous" "male" humanoid robot named "Muhammad" groped the behind of a female reporter during a televised interview now available for viewing on the Internet, but it was only engaging in his "expected behavior" according to his creators.

Interestingly, the robot was from Saudi Arabia, a country which has officially granted legal citizenship to another robot; a citizenship other countries may be required to recognize and honor under international law, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

Banzhaf provided a legal analysis of this unusual grant of citizenship to a robot in 2018 in explaining some of the problems which robots, especially sex robots ["sexbots"] are already creating:
MDs to Prescribe Sex Robots, Already Covered by Medical Insurance; (https://www.valuewalk.com/perfectly-legal-cyber-brothel-medical-insurance/)
Lack of Regulation Could Trigger Many Problems, Including Citizenship For Robots
SEE ALSO:
Expert's Claim That SexBots Have Legal Rights May Have Precedent (https://www.prlog.org/12701805-experts-claim-that-sexbots...)
A Robot Granted Citizenship By Saudi Arabia Might Have Legal Rights Under Treaties (https://www.prlog.org/12701805-experts-claim-that-sexbots-have-legal-rights-may-have-precedent.html)
AND
Should Congress Regulate Sexbots? Law Prof Sees Need for Hearings (https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/should_congress_r...)
Law Professor Warns: Congress must Act on Growing Sexbot Industry (https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-warns-congress-must-act-growing-sexbot-industry/)

On closely related issues, Banzhaf was the first to correctly predict that the availability of increasingly lifelike sexbots would create new and novel legal problems for society, especially now that entrepreneurs are operating very popular and profitable cyber brothels which cannot be closed down because the "prostitutes" are all sexbots, and manufacturers are making sexbots which can realistically simulate the rape of adult women, or even of young children of either gender.

JOHN F. BANZHAF III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Public Interest Law
George Washington University Law School,
FAMRI Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor,
Fellow, World Technology Network,
Founder, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH),
2000 H Street, NW, Wash, DC 20052, USA
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