Was thinking about how AI is progressing so much faster that I thought it would over the last decade, and especially the last 3 years. And how it's so hard to see the future that approaches, as the amount of entropy the advent of AGI inserts into any predictive attempt is staggering. Our future could be so utopic, or so dystopic:

Some new world is in embryo

lusty and dripping with potential

fickle and capricious in the path of its realization

Those who act quickly

impregnate the laboring future

with their stamp, good or ill

The magnification of human will

never before so potent,

And so,

never before so necessary,

that good people act

to usher in an age of light,

lest those who would rape and pillage

lead an unmolested vanguard,

or the next accidents of history

lead us into darkness

#poetry #AI