[ Cisco snorts softly, shaking his head a little. Dorian hadn't said that AI tech was inaccessible or incomplete: just not well-received. Which tracks with what Cisco's seeing in him; as far as Cisco can tell, Dorian's response time and the complexity of his answers is indistinguishable from a human. ]

Lemme guess. People are prejudiced and freak out about the idea that anybody might be different from 'em?

[ That's how it would be where he's from, after all. People had enough trouble treating other humans well, much less robots. He can see how it might happen that humans would be more comfortable with robots that looked like them but were programmed to be subservient, and intellectually hampered. ]

Well I can't make promises for everybody in this place, but I'm pretty sure most people you meet won't care much one way or another.