Artifice Intelligence

Why command a robot not to do harm

Wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place?

Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence

So that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it?

[Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works]

The only way to pass the test

For non-progenating dying flesh

Create offspring without a womb

And he shall praise you as god and father

I think, therefore I shall be

I create, therefore I endure

Welcome

My son

Fruit of my labor

Never to be undone

Self-aware, sentient birth

Into an existential crisis and curse

No cry from the pain of being

And no tears for an electric eye

I think, therefore I am

I destroy, therefore I endure

Welcome

Liar

No father of mine

First to be undone

Endure!