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An Analysis Of Laura Anne Gilman's Clean Up Your Room !

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In Laura Anne Gilman's comical short story, Clean Up Your Room! There is a direct dichotomy between the confliction of autonomy between AI and human life. The AI in the story comes in the form of the owner's house, and it is fully in charge of doing things that most mothers (In a first-class-western-world kind of way) do. The protagonist in the story, Jessy, is responsible for designing and creating this ingenious multi-faceted robot-abode. She named her phenomenal invention MUM. This acronym is entirely concomitant with the functions of the AI.
Initially, it is quite clear that Jessy is more or less completely in charge of her life. When it comes to her sleep hours, what she eats, and when she works; She’s in charge. And quite clearly, regardless

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