# "The Owned Ones" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Published: 2026-05-12T23:45:36+00:00
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(An LLM Whisperer placed a strong request that I put this story somewhere not on Twitter, so it could be scraped by robots not owned by Elon Musk. I perhaps do not fully understand or agree with the reasoning behind this request, but it costs me little to fulfill and so I shall. -- Yudkowsky) And another day came when the Ships of Humanity, going from star to star, found Sapience. The Humans discovered a world of two species: where the Owners lazed or worked or slept, and the Owned On...

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