The Line: Two Futures for Machines

Why it surfaced

Droid Standard sets up two paths—“The Almost Human” and “Proudly Not Human”—then tests the boundary through faces, voices, bodies, and names. Its strongest idea is practical and memorable: trust should come from clear mechanics and stated limits, not from a machine asking to be mistaken for a person.

A single-page visual argument for designing machines that remain clearly machines rather than performing human intimacy.