On AI

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Artificial intelligence

The promise and pursuit

Of science and war

Enlightenment and degradation

Every human impulse amplified

Every groaning desire

For whatever

Measure achievable

Extant for survival and control

Beyond to the too perfect land

Of truth and beauty

Power and wealth

Love and belonging

Running distance to the divine

Yes, as it has always been

Yet while humanity marches on

Its earnest earthbound slog

And Cegorach watches with glee

We see approaching in the trees

This come-hither force

Created in the kitchen of Frankenstein

Accelerate and explode without relent

Now the only question left to ask is

“How soon?”