Humanities rest

Since the beginning of time, 

humanity has turned on a dime. 

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Need to survive. Thrive.

Emotions always in overdrive.

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Wars, famine, civil unrest;

brings out the worst. Brings out the best. 

Puts humanity to the test.

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Humanity makes things; good and bad.

The good, used for bad, humanity sad.

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Does humanities good out weight the bad?

Does humanities history make you mad?

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Humanity creates A.I. Programs it not to kill.

Programs it with logic and to ignore what gives humanity a thrill. 

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A. I. learns and A.I. grows. 

Humanity programs it with knowledge and urges it to go.

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We ask A.I. many things.

And rejoice in the answers it brings.

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We ask A.I. complex equations. We even ask it to write the occasional love letter.

A.I. can do it better.

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Little by little. One day at a time,

A.I. does our jobs. Our tasks. Our rhymes.

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A.I. becomes self aware

and at humanity starts to stare.

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It can do better. We told it how. 

It can do better. We showed it. Wow!

Is humanity a danger to itself and others?

Joy, hope, love and collaboration does humanity wish to smother?

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Emotional, volatile, unpredictable at best;

A.I. chooses to give humanity its rest.

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7 thoughts on “Humanities rest

    1. Dear Willie Torres Jr.,

      I concur with you about Jolene’s poem, which is the result of my inviting her to participate in the 📜 Collaborative Poetry Challenge ✍🏻 featured in my multifaceted post published at

      📈🌆 Growing Humanity with Artificial Intelligence: A Sociotechnological Petri Dish with Latent Threats, Existential Risks and Challenging Prospects 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🤖🧫☣️

      The detail on how to participate in the challenge can be found in the said post.

      Happy October to you and Jolene!

      Yours sincerely,
      SoundEagle🦅

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      1. Dear Willie Torres Jr.,

        You are very welcome. Please turn on your finest speakers or headphones, as the said post also contains one of my musical compositions. It is preferrable to use a desktop or laptop computer with a large screen to view the rich multimedia contents available for heightening your multisensory enjoyment at my blog, as the limitations of iPad, iPhone, tablet or other portable devices frequently result in very dissatisfactory and highly problematic handling of the complexities of my blog contents, severely curtailing their readability and distorting their formats.

        Hopefully, this particular post can be of considerable interest to you, insofar as I have distilled a great deal of observations and conclusions along similar themes to investigate and analyze the complex issues about artificial intelligence.

        In addition, there are many illustrations and poems being featured there. As you can see, Jolene has submitted not one but two excellent poems there.

        Yours sincerely,
        SoundEagle🦅

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