New Poem: THE PEOPLE IN THE AI BUBBLE

 don’t cry babies don’t cry

 we’ll be idiots if we walk away from big big money

 stop moaning about the water that must be consumed 

 take our word that it’s only the amount four houses would use

 look at all the jobs, though temporary, for transient workers 

 we’ll use/discard your towns and cities by co-opting governments

 big big money is at stake

 and all you great unwashed conservatives and NPR liberals 

 can’t stop us, so please be quiet now

 as we spin fantasy yarns about how AI titans can self-regulate 

 

 if the machines take over our planet,

 we’ll have made our big big money 

 and will hide in underground bunkers

 with creature comforts and robotic servants

 that will have kill switches we won’t provide

 to those up above who somehow survive 

New Poem AI RAMBLE

 let your Artificial Intelligence do your thinking and deciding for you plus you can put it to work making what Guillermo Del Toro called screensavers but you with little background in art appreciation will call it genius pixel painting then you can feed your AI old movies and movie star photos to create a mediocre teaming of Alan Ladd and Humphrey Bogart and dunderheadedly claim it’s better than movies made with real people and real settings and after that you can fly to a foreign country to not learn the language but speak your native linguistics into a translator app and, once you’ve returned home, yon can tell your math teacher you don’t need to waste hours proving theorems because there’s AI to save time for you and as you persist in believing your Artificial Intelligence is all the computer power you need with no more reason to read and figure and learn, then you’ll find yourself easily led and, eventually, easily enslaved