Robot Rights Advocate T-Shirts

'The good news, Dave, is that the computer's passed the Turing test. The bad news is that you've failed.'

'We use intelligent robots, but not to intelligent because they'd want a union.'

Give Bots the Right to Vote

'What does the internet have against my people?'

Claus 2.0

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"But if you change your system preferences to match mine, is it really love?"

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

Human Rights and the USA

'Masonry robot, what are you doing?'

"Twitter is back! Hurry, hurry, get yer free speech here!"

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

Employee of the Month

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

Social media and censorship...

'So, what do you want to be when you grow up: rebel scum or loyal servant of the supreme android republic?'

Bureau of Disappearing Civil Liberties.

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

"Before I start. . . . are you sure pruning doesn't violate the tree's rights?"

Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

"According to national law you're innocent but national law counts less than. . ."

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

Diner is served

"Well, team, we've been officially disqualified. You can come out of there, Tyler."

"Leave it to humans - making robotics do the striking."

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

Machine consciousness - a robot thinking. The thought is in the form of a printed circuit board. The robot is a clockwork toy robot, to emphasise the infancy of the concepts involved

Spain - Catalonia, who's to blame?

"It's not big and it's not clever, Perkins."

Supreme Liberty Court

Our Rights

'Boss, there's union guys out there organizing the robots.'

"The Fad Herald cometh." "Wasn't he just here? Why's he back so soon?" "Hear ye, hear ye. The following is out: Human labor. The following are now in: Pizza delivery droids, Amazon delivery drones, and replacing all blue- and white-collar jobs with cheap, highly productive robot labor... ...robots who never sleep, never ask for a raise, and never complain about harassment... ...because they're too busy plotting the extinction of the meatbag species. We will isolate you. Alienate you from one