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Why the new word 'clanker' hints at society's skepticism of AI
NBC Newsยท2025-08-05 23:07

You're a clanker. Honestly, at this point, I'm even reticent to say the word. Sounds a little You might have to bleep it out in the pot.I don't want future robots to hear me throwing it around and think like, geez, this guy's a bigot. I think a way to assess how people are kind of feeling about AI right now. Like a vibe check, is the emergence of this word clanker, which has been kind of getting meme'med around.It's supposed to be a negative way of talking about some of these technologies. Oh, that clanker, ...