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It's not a robot. In the books Murderbot is a construct, made of hybridized biological and artificial components. However, there is an AGI characterized as having empathy and enjoying media in the books, so I suppose the series is just not going to be your cup of tea.
I don't know how you can say that. The name of the show is Murderbot. Emphasis on the "bot". It's created, not born or bred. It clearly shows at several points in the show computational processes going on in it's "brain".
That's a robot...?
It calls itself Murderbot but it's out of a sardonic and pessimistic acceptance of its role in "The Company", and a nod to a traumatic experience it had. In the books there is a clear delineation between bots, which have either no or limited machine learning, constructs, which are like human/machine hybrids, and augmented humans, who have cybernetic implants. It's explained that constructs are made of cloned human tissue, and might have even been made of humans at one point.
However, there IS a character in the books that is described as an extremely advanced artificial intelligence bot, that has either no or limited biological components, and it's characterized in the same ways that seem to bother you. So each to their own I suppose.