If you're interested in some theological debate, I actually asked a question on Islam SE on this 11 years ago: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/2320/is

If you're interested in some theological debate, I actually asked a question on Islam SE on this 11 years ago: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/2320/is-it-haram-to-make-humanoid-robots https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/2320/is-it-haram-t... Take note the Islam SE community mostly comes from Stack Overflow and is somewhat biased towards tech. But it was a decent discussion with some solid citations. tldr: Imitation of humans and other living creatures is not okay, but nothing wrong with imitation of intelligence.