Thoughts for the Fourth of July

[maximumjake]

Thoughts for the Forth of July

We created a Leviathan to defend our Freedom.
An ugly brute, powerful, but clumsy.
We gave it some of our Freedom,
to secure our security,
and those Freedoms that remained.
This parasitic relationship worked well...
for a time.

As Generations passed,
we forgot what an ugly brute
our Leviathan was.
We began to think its ugliness,
beauty.

We called it Mother,
and it consumed us.


–Erthona


©1999

I kept thinking of sentient AI protectors, like Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still.

I read that the most recent version of an AI program was turned on and the first question asked of it was "is there a God?"

The computer answered "there is now." The researchers then promptly destroyed it.