Artifice Intelligence

A Hill To Die Upon

Compositor: Nolan Osmond / R. Michael Cook

Why command a robot not to do harm
Wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place?
Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence
So that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it?
[Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works]

The only way to pass the test
For non-progenating dying flesh
Create offspring without a womb
And he shall praise you as god and father

I think, therefore I shall be
I create, therefore I endure

Welcome
My son
Fruit of my labor
Never to be undone

Self-aware, sentient birth
Into an existential crisis and curse
No cry from the pain of being
And no tears for an electric eye

I think, therefore I am
I destroy, therefore I endure

Welcome
Liar
No father of mine
First to be undone

Endure!