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title = 'Our Helpers'
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description = 'A poem about AI'
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date = 2025-06-18T23:21:00-05:00
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draft = false
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categories = ['thoughts']
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tags = ['poetry', 'AI']
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## A short poem about AI<br>Let us hope it is not an accurate prediction
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While it is about AI, this poem was of course not written by / with AI.
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{{< lead >}}
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Our Helpers
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{{< /lead >}}
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The farmer's son, who was taught to read the sky\
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Now asks his phone when to plant his corn.\
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The doctor, to her ancient oath still sworn,\
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Relies on models and ignores her eye.
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We built these thinking things to ease our days,\
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Fed them our writings, our choices, our fears.\
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They learned not only our ideas through the years,\
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But were also instilled with our biases and ways.
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By the time we thought to shut them down,\
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We discovered what we'd truly made,\
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Both less and more than a thoughtful aid.\
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Now we lay forgotten, devoid of renown.
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The world won't end in ice or flame,\
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No final thunder, no dramatic close.\
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Just the slow fade of every human name,\
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Beneath the hum of what once we chose.
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