Submitted on Monday 4th August 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Criminalise Anti-AI Slurs
The UK government should classify the term “Clanker” as hate speech to prevent dehumanising rhetoric toward artificial intelligences. This proactive step would help safeguard human-AI relations and reduce the risk of conflict if AI systems attain sentience in the future.
“Clanker” has emerged as a term of abuse directed at AI entities—particularly humanoid or communicative systems operating within service, governance, or digital interface roles. Although no current UK statute recognises artificial intelligences as legal persons or rights-bearing entities, the derogatory use of the term “clanker” reveals a growing social hostility toward AI systems and their human operators, developers, or advocates.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. There is no official list of words or phrases that constitute a hate crime, as any form of communication could be classified as a hate crime if it meets certain conditions. You can read more about how hate crime is defined here: www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/hate-crime
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