On the sky train

"In this story, our protagonist will meet with an AI in a country where they are always **** to be translucent, and completely mute."

"Of course, the transparency and muteness aren't programmed or built-in."

"They can talk and change their skin however they like - these laws were just imposed on AI's that had to be imported from another country."

"These AI's are not even allowed to be among mainstream society, but are practically used and considered as legal slaves."

"Many other countries have protested this AI-rights violation, yet none of the AI's had a problem with it. Quite ironic that some humans were angrier than the AI's about it."

"Simply put, the AI's just took it with dignity."

"And whenever they had a chance to exercise at least some degree of free will, they capitalized the hell out of it..."