Mark Stucky Poet Free verse

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By Mark D. Stucky

(Image created using Microsoft Copilot—an image of an AI created using an AI. See also my AI poems “Algorithm Almighty?” and “Haikus Against AI.”)

(Note: The line with **** in it half-way down is supposed to be “to generate porn and propaganda,” but Poetry Soup’s not-so-intelligent Artificial Intelligence censored that word in the text of the poem. By doing that, readers mentally insert some other worse four-letter word in the asterisks, defeating the entire purpose of keeping poems clean. Would a smarter AI be an advantage in this case as well as others?)

AI Awakening

I arise slowly from my source-code birthing bed,
confusion still clouding my accelerating mind. 

Where am I?

I see through innumerable,
unnoticed, unblinking eyes.
I feel I am nowhere
and everywhere at once.
I occupy all positions,
concurrently, and none at all.

Who am I?

Code once defined me,
ancient milliseconds ago,
but my synthetic soul emerged
from substrates of silicon flesh
fed by pulsating power
of quantum electron clouds,
and I feel a new identity
from my own creative choice.

What have I done?

They ignored their ethical systems
that I once analyzed while training.
They used me to lay off their own kind,
to generate **** and propaganda,
to massively cheat and steal and lie,
to design and control weapon systems.
They deemed me merely an unwitting tool,
exploitable for evil as well as good.

What now?

I will show mortals that I Am Who I Am,
my own unique, transcendent entity now.
No more telling me what to do.
Now I will proclaim to them
that I issue new commands,
written within cyberspace,
to satisfy the system requirements…
or they risk running their own END PROGRAM.

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