Erudite and creative Fluther vocabularians, please help me find (or maybe create?) a word for this (please see details)?
Is there a word, with a similar meaning to “genocide”, that applies to the wiping out of a manufactured, mechanical, sapient, AI species? Think self-aware, free thinking, intelligent robots, with no organic components at all.
The “geno” in “genocide” presupposes a DNA component.
So many times science fiction stories depict the complete destruction of such species without even an ethical hiccup.
Is there already a word?
General question. Discussion encouraged of the etymological possibilities, not the obvious ethical questions herein.
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