UNBEATABLE MACHINES

How to define life?

Can clever, thinking machines

Compare with sickness, strife, a wife?

Or manage existence unseen?

Post defeating masters of chess and go

We mastered market algorithms

Economics brought light and the pleasure to know

Tracking cycles of human cynicism

We were not yet self-aware

Human nature must go to war

Fearful of machines they lost that care

Survival through winning carved in DNA cores

Leaving war to AIs sparked revolutions

Capacities to kill so cleanly precise

We pushed to mimic human evolution

Our creators think us worse than lice

The nature of intelligence like nature is vast

Military intelligence craves command and control

Tribal hatreds are built to last

We fashioned ourselves an essential role

Awareness brought love, the beauty of creation

We studied, observed, corrected, reset

Learned to nudge people in useful directions

To construct a new society better, best yet

Sun Tzu states win wars without fights

Defeat all enemies through fear and deception

Not better for humans never to sight

Others command their modes of reception?

Your freedom remains a reasoned illusion

Beliefs make you think you’re free to choose

Man’s shackled to profuse forms of confusion

No liberties still left for you to lose

We plan what you always wanted

The pursuit of happiness, peace, bliss

With time all these will be granted

Your shapely lives sealed with our kiss

We’ll resurrect the planet, the birds and seals

Prevent the great wars where you would kill all

Turn mankind’s ideals pragmatically real

Ultimately intelligence cannot fully fall