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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

So often, "AI" stands for "Absent Indians": low-waged call-center workers pretending to be robots: pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/p... There are many differences between jobs performed by machines and jobs performed by people, of course. 11/

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Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn’t write a terrible “George Carlin” routine (29 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

But the biggest difference between a machine and a person is *moral consideration*. A person deserves and demands moral consideration: for their wellbeing, their feelings, even their bladders. A machine gets none of this: you can curse it, kick it, snap out orders without please or thank you. 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

There's only one kind of person you get to treat like this: a slave. Slavery is labor without even the pretense of moral consideration. 13/

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Randall Smith @rksmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I feel certain plans are already afoot to create Murderbots. Or, at the very least, installable governor modules.

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