The Next Lies About A.I.

Are going to be like the future lies
of the next president of the USA.

The California tech industry will be
behind both, and with both the lies will rely
on the laziness of the people who accept
without enquiry the idea that an easy life
for them is an easy life for all who mattered.

When, as slave masters of old knew so well,
that that was very far from the case.

The president will have his yes men, cabinet
and the tech companies will reinvent indentured labour
for the poor-but-computer-literate in the far east
who will be the human end of AI that in the wealthy West
the tech companies will do their best to erase all view of.

Meanwhile, as computer use hots up the planet,
and uses more resources faster than IT firms admit,
whilst burying the advertising industry in greenwash
the president wants to repay his corporate oil and coal
backers as if carbon was a myth, and only profiting your own matters.