Venn/Rhymes with Zen/Which is good news for us

When/We exten/Dagood Metaphor Plus

Work/With a circ/Cull with ARTIFICE named

Smirk/Like a jerk/And move on unashamed

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ARTIFICE and INTELLECT in circles overlapping

Nearby there is AGENCY unsure which root it’s tapping

Doctor Isaac Asimov had FOUR laws of Robotics

“Save Humanity” was primal guarding from psychotics

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But Agency is tricky/When the motivation’s sticky/And the mission is not properly selective

A sign that just says STOP/Can confuse a RoboCop/With Obedience hard-wired as a directive

Do NOT keep your fingers crossed/Superstition gets us lost/And is cursed with mean invective and attack words

Baby, match and gasoline/Fire up carnage that’s obscene/So Gain Wisdom, let’s, and take a big step backwards.

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Afterword: The hot topic now is Artificial Intelligence, or whatever AI actually stands for. It is an ambiguous, slippery field of endeavor, and so I wrote this ambiguous, slippery poem.