Clanker! This slur against robots is all over the internet – but is it offensive?

It sounds a bit insulting. It is, in fact, a slur. While it's sometimes used to denigrate actual robots – including delivery bots and self-driving cars – it's increasingly used to insult AI chatbots and platforms such as ChatGPT. I'm new to this – why would I want to insult AI? Does the AI care that you're insulting it? That's a complex and hotly debated philosophical question, to which the answer is "no".