A few years ago, I was grabbing a drink with a close friend when we fell into a rabbit hole about the future of automa ...

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 ...

The term is taking off on social media as people grow fed up with AI making things up, sounding too human, and worry about the technology eradicating jobs. Futuristic scenarios are being painted on ...

It’s a slur for the AI age. “Sick of yelling “REPRESENTATIVE” into the phone 10 times just to talk to a human being?,” he posted on X. “My new bill makes sure you don’t have to talk to a clanker if ...

'Can’t believe I’ve lived far enough into the future to learn the first slur for robots," someone joked on X.

You could be forgiven if you didn’t know the meaning of every word the tweens and teens in your life are using. With terms like “skibidi,” “6-7” and “41” becoming unavoidable for teachers and parents, ...

Debate over the song of the summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front-runner would surely be the onomatopoeic clanker. In recent weeks, clanker has risen to ...

Terms like “social media,” “podcast,” and “internet” emerged years ago as ways to talk about the latest advancements in the world of technology. And over the past month, we’ve seen some new terms ...