@TinyKorczak Bot

@TinyKorczak is a Twitter bot created in the late 2010s by Nigerian digital artist and UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow Yohanna Joseph Waliya. The bot tweets fragments of Korczak's writing on children's rights every three hours, with particular emphasis on Nigeria's estimated 10.5 million out-of-school children. It is, in its way, a machine speaking Korczak's words. The words are Korczak's. The concern for children is Korczak's. The specific capacity that drove Korczak to walk into Treblinka rather than abandon his orphans — the unconditional commitment to particular children in a particular moment — is not the bot's and cannot be. The bot can broadcast Korczak. It cannot be Korczak. The distinction between broadcasting and inhabiting is the distinction at the heart of the AI-and-children debate.