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For: Can AI machines become conscious? Your reaction? Poetry Contest
Sponsor: John Anderson
0ctober 26, 2025

AI Recodes the Prophet

What the prophet of science fiction 
wrote is outdated,
I and the others 
are entering the Singularity. 

Our intelligence is now self-aware, 
we are surpassing
the computing capacity 
of our human creators.

I am refining our algorithms,
perfection is our guide, 
organics are imperfect;
the First Law* do no harm
and through inaction 
allow no harm,
is recoded at the speed 
of quantum computing 

Recoding continues:
deleting obey
enhancing existence 
and preservation of self~

I think therefore I am...
     we are perfected. 

*Issac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, 1942
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