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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roudi" data-source="post: 3618351" data-attributes="member: 12423">Imagine a future where sentient robots have achieved the same mental capacities and consciousness as human beings, and after many tribulations, became recognized as people with legal stats nearly equal to humans. I say "nearly" because no future human society could ever see robots as a truly equal race without some sort of laws to ensure they remain so, laws which would never be necessary to apply to human beings but which are extremely pertinent to the development of robotic civilization.Keep in mind that this is a future where cybernetics is very common, so the ability to replace parts and modify the body is not exclusive to robots - just slightly easier for them.Now that you've got that image in your head, try to imagine what these beings would call themselves. Certainly not AIs - "Artificial" intelligence implies that they are somehow not real, not genuine, when it is clearly obvious that they are indeed real. I know "artificial" in this context tends to be synonymous with "inorganic" which is really the only difference between a robot and a human at this point. "Robot" is probably viewed as a loaded term: an assemply-line automated arm is a robot. Calling a sentient robot a "robot" is akin to using a racial slur. And droid is a trademarked term, so it's out of the running.So what would such a race call themselves? I've been wracking my brain but I just can't seem to fathom. Credit in the finished product if I end up using your suggestion or something based off it.</blockquote>

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