All of this is just a distraction from real and important scientific questions about how (and whether) to make automation tools that steer clear of Granny Weatherwax's sin of "treating people like things." Bender - a computational linguist - isn't a reactionary who hates automation for its own sake. On Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - the excellent podcast she co-hosts with #AlexHanna - there is a machine-generated transcript:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417
22/
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