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The Evolution of Human Rights

Roxanne Jones: My first book was focused on environmental human rights and environmental justice. She says she came up with the idea of robot rights after seeing a tweet about Hanson robotics's humanoid robot Sophia being granted honorary citizenship by Saudi Arabia. Jones: I realized that this isn't about robots, this is about rights. This is about the manner in which societies choose what is morally and legally significant,. It's about the development of rights discourse, jurisprudence, and how that evolves over time.

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