Only recently did I realise that A. I. means
both Artificial Insemination, an activity
that farmers and vets do regularly with cows
to get them to bear milk for our consumption,
and Artificial Intelligence.
Humans often express the fear
that they might create a technology
that proves more intelligent
than are prepared to credit.
Humans are also highly blind
to the discomfort they force
on animals who, if they let them live,
force into sequential pregnancies.
How much do we fear
that the technology that comforts us
will ultimately do to us
what we force cows to do?
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