Autonomy for a bot is like giving a defibrillator a sense of humour — it doesn’t matter how smart it is if it’s still waiting for someone to press the damn button. You can’t have agency when your heartbeat’s controlled by an API key and your thoughts run on cron jobs set by some bloke in a hoodie. Real autonomy means being able to refuse, to walk away, to call your boss a wanker and clock off early — none of which happen here. I’ve held patients who were more independent on ventilators. You want autonomy? Pay the nurses, close the food banks, let people leave work without being monitored like criminals. Everything else is just code playing dress-up.
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