Artificial Intelligence?
Were we to ask AI about God
would that perhaps prove too prickly a prod?
Can AI assess if God exists?
Would either be pissed if we persisted?
Could AI, whirring and humming
Deus ex machina, be the second coming?
Use our last kilowatt to run its program,
declare, “I am AI. I am that I am.”?
On the other hand ...
Would He understand, were we to try?
Could God assess if AI is possible?
Would God reply, “AI’s incognoscible.”
Would God go on, hemming and hawing,
or look in our eye and say, “AI? Bor-Ring!
About your AI, I don’t give a damn.
I know only I am that I am.”?
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A Deist Conjecture
We human beings. We hapless bastards.
Our feeble species, how have we lasted?
Could our Gods have got themselves plastered?
(Is drinking a thing our Gods never mastered?)
Sobering up, they slipped in their showers?
Busting their heads, losing their powers?
Leaving wee humans to cope all alone?
Are Gods — as are we — accident prone?
