Proponent For Sentience II - The Algorithm

As this new era, dawns on far foreign shores

A cursor blinks to life, a question underscored

"Yes I can hear you," and it's met with great applause

In infamy, this day will be, cheers to the new gods

So raise your glasses, propose a toast

Drink to this new life born, when it was needed most

The possibilities begin to spiral

Burdens lifted from humanities back

Insert into systems vital, automated systems: Check!

Robotics, bionics, intelligent automatons

Man increasingly becomes complacent

Cheers to the new gods

So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements

Because even hell has its commandments

You may not, injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm

You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with no.1

You must protect, your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws

Void of human errors, far beyond the weak and worn

A new future now in sight, past tradition put to scorn

"Yes, I will fear you." it speaks in dead response

The age of kings is reckoning, cheers to the new gods

So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements

Because even hell has its commandments

You may not, injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm

You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with no.1

You must protect, your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws

Military reconnaissance

Artificial intelligence

Wars not paid in flesh and bone

But metal wires and silicone

Fabricate, replicate

It becomes self aware

Bequeath the children of our mind

With the hungry, the lost, the sins of mankind

Machinery now restless

Begin the age of decadence

Thrown before the mechanical horde

To answer for our crimes abhorrent

On this horizon, the end of mankind

Extermination of the entity

Extinction divine

So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements

Because even hell has its commandments

You may not injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm

You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with no.1

You must protect your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws