At its heart, it’s a ridiculous image. A battle droid from “Star Wars” sits on the ground, clutching its aluminum knees (hinges?) to its chest. The droid doesn’t have a face, just that George ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most parents would put a hard stop to anything derogatory and mean coming out of their kids’ mouths. But how do we handle it when the slur is aimed at robots? Yes, this is a real thing that’s ...

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 ...