A Boston Dynamics robot is seen on a media tour at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant, in Ellabell, Ga., in March. Mike Stewart/AP
Mike Stewart/AP
Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise.
As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo seems to reflect growing dissent to our changing relationship to robots.
But you might not know that the word itself — robot — first appeared in our lexicon with a cultural critique already built in.
In this edition of Word