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In the television show “Battlestar Galactica,” they were called toasters. In the film “Blade Runner,” skinjobs. Now in the culture war against robots and artificial intelligence chatbots, a new slur ...

It’s a slur for the AI age. “Clanker,” a word that traces back to a Star Wars video game, has emerged in recent weeks as the internet’s favorite epithet for any kind of technology looking to replace ...

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The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real frustrations with technology, has become a go-to slur against artificial intelligence and robots. Credit...Timo Lenzen ...