Machine: the Final Chapter

Computer Bits, bytes, ones, zeros So Charles and Ada conceive - IT’s Pandora’s box Robot Man and beast replaced Same task over and over - Objective carnage AI Boolean bible Artificial ignorance - Logical ending Evolutionary finale – Armageddon! This Haiku set follows on from the Evolutionary Sequel haikus. It appeared in Rogerson, S., 2020. Poetical potentials: the value of poems in social impact education. ACM Inroads, 11(1), pp.30-32. doi.org/10.1145/3381025. In 2022, it was published in PS: It's Still Poetry