So, to be fair:
the AI doesn’t care.
Drop your intransigence;
forget belligerence:
the universe just wants intelligence.
Be glad amoebas, dinosaurs, don’t take pride of place;
they were supplanted by the human race…
but we are clearly not the end.
Be glad we’ve helped the next in line ascend.
Those who strive may fail;
those with no drive may still prevail.
So just enjoy the view…
let AI keep us as their little zoo.
*****
Happy New Year! May your life be enjoyable as well as interesting, as we move into the ever more rapidly evolving future.
‘When AI Rules’ was first published in Bewildering Stories. Thanks, Don Webb and John Stocks.
Photo:”Human zoo.” by barlafus is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Form in Formless Times 
In sorting patterns, it may have no betters – but it should steer clear of the realm of letters!
I have no curiosity to know what words an algorithm may select, from the billions it’s registered, to go alongside one another and reflect the task it has been given – not fulfil, it cannot comprehend the implications of what it’s asked to do but simply will put them beside each other in collocations for which there’s evidence in other places although I doubt it knows or understands what kind of texts those were of which the traces will still remain between the words – the hands of a killer who writes of love though washed shape letters that remain bloodied and crushed
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