Human automatons? Why would you have mercy for automatons?
Just call them cattle, we might feel more compassion towards them if we don't think of them as machinelike.
The "Berkeley Humanoid" is a distinct robot (they have the "Berkeley Humanoid Lite" named "ours" and colored in orange as the rightmost point on their graph).
> I was never asked to write a fizzbuzz until last week.
> A month has passed and I got no response, no feedback, nothing…
It reads like fiction because it is.