The trouble with A I is not just
that it consists of computers
that humans have built and programmed
so that these new computers can repair
and further re-programme themselves,
so that they can process more data
than any human might conceive,
troubling as that might be.
No, the trouble starts with the ownership
and application of these hyper-fast machines,
their licenses and regulation in public life,
where millions of citizens come to depend
on machines that create unemployment,
whilst catering for human ease.
Then there is the capacity
of these machines to rewrite history,
which human beings were just as apt at.
But they do it so slowly and leave behind
traces of the original in their reinvention
that a computer will not.
Anyone reading the computerised
reinvention of history would require
strong instincts indeed to know what
to dis/believe of what they read.
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