You know exhaustion over artificial intelligence has reached a pinnacle when people start coming up with slurs to talk about robots. While there are a number of contenders for dissing AI (and people ...

Critics of artificial intelligence have a new insult for the fast-developing technology inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Fans of the popular science fiction series will know that "clanker" is what ...

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 ...

A growing wave of online anger at artificial intelligence has birthed a new term for machines taking over workplaces: Clanker. Borrowed from "Star Wars" lore and repurposed by Gen Z, it has quickly ...

In July, just after receiving an email pitch about the “perfect” AI girlfriend, content creator Harrison Stewart made a TikTok skit using the anti-AI slur “clanker.” Pretending to be a disapproving ...

Futuristic scenarios are being painted on social media videos in which hate is rising between humans and so-called “clankers”. One tongue-in-cheek video illustrates a parent telling their child, “we ...

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 ...

“Get this dirty clanker out of here!” yelled a man in a recent viral video while pointing at a robot on a sidewalk. “Bucket of bolts.” Clanker has become a go-to slur against AI on social media, led ...