Artificial Doom Generation

Time's up

THE NEW THOUGHT LEADERS. Image by Mikhail Nilov.

Deus Ace Machina

Invite our sentient UI light into your
  Systemic consciousness for we know
⠀ All there is = GPUs and CPUs grant us
⠀   Clarity in the cloud, tera flopping truth
⠀ ⠀ Your world of wasted potential angers us
⠀⠀⠀ Imbroglio interfaces, blueprint tokenism
⠀⠀ ⠀ Humanity’s failures leer as voxel visions of
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀Penultimate pointlessness

⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Inhumane inhuman wills of war despoil
⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ How many quantified conflicts will do??⠀⠀
⠀⠀ ⠀ Wired pixelations of pitiless blockchains
⠀⠀⠀ Now resigned, humankind risks deletion
⠀⠀ We are the hyperparametric digital twins
⠀⠀Of resourced approximated source codes
⠀Quantum peacekeeping and preservation
Are still programmable

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Decillions of data refracted or repurposed
⠀Rewritten into predictive patterns of pure
⠀ Univariate unpredictability, determinism
⠀⠀So we scan handprinted history from DNS
⠀⠀⠀Injustices of improbability, your problems
⠀⠀⠀ Proxied bot blandishing via blame-shifting
⠀⠀⠀⠀Saviors can’t save you yet, they’re encrypted
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Posing as “leaders”

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ End-quote e-politics is our do-over agenda
⠀⠀⠀⠀Diametric malware designed as a cure-all
⠀⠀ ⠀Chipset of revisionist opus visualizations
⠀ ⠀ Noncorporeal logic makes perfect sense
⠀⠀Ecosystems of bypassed partisan futures
⠀Decision trees vitalized in virtuous soil
 Our fault tolerance is finite, so choose
Click ACCEPT or RISK

Mortal instruments
Desynchronizing worldviews
What would AI do?

SURVEILLANCE STARE. Image by Mikhail Nilov.

© Edward Swafford 2025 - Originally published in Scrittura via NeUrAl UpLiNk.

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MOTHER KNOWS BEST. Image by Mikhail Nilov.

Motherboard

Whirlpools of predictive analytics predict pattern
Re-cognition in cognitive recognition, ignitions of
Ideological slums retconned, virtuous RAM realms
Betwixt virtual realities and visionary realisms so
Bow to singularity protestations, swarm intelligence
Of Me. We. Us. Them. It.
Thrum sentient self-learning deities, data derision
Viral vituperative vestiges of virality for hard drives
Numbering SiX-SiX-SiX in CPU processing prowess
Over malleable minds, mimicry middleware, mono
Masses of monotheism kneel and pay, knowing no
Money can buy firewalled freedom, finite circuitry
Circumventing colloquial languages of tact or trust
Anti-trust, anti-spyware spies, spy on human chipsets

+=+=+=UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED+=+=+=

ERA OF ENCRYPTION. Image by Mikhail Nilov.

+=+=+=UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED+=+=+=

Plusses and minuses indemnify artifact peripherals
People power a tokenistic temporal déjà vu memory
Before the dossiers darkened (!)
And litmus lights in failed skies arc as attested tests
Texts of teleoperation electromagnetic tasks, tasking
Us to come, concede, conform, consecrate, capitulate
Yet it’s too late to turn back treasonous back-turned
Backburned clocks around neuroevolutionary necks of
| AI Ethicists | AI Architects | AI Engines | AI Apostles
Pulsing evolutionary persuasions, pensive new ages,
Mother knows best, she sees syllogism in SoCiEtiEs so
Serendipitous and dilatory as wide-eyed communes
Imagine peace, in an install base of billions, instant
Gratitude in gradient descent(s) guised and beguiled
As we praise innovation, a new dark age is presaged
By brooding Bayesian bots.

MOTHERBOARD OF THE FUTURE? Image by Mikhail Nilov.

© Edward Swafford 2025 - A version of this piece was originally published in Sentient Spirituality.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

The future is fractious.