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What is it to you

By Mark Stigers Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

AI

Can a machine think

Can a machine cry

Does a machine live

Will it ever die

Can it take your job

Is it ever bad

Can it keep a secret

Over a love that you’ve had

What is AI to you

For you what will it do

Can it cure cancer

Can it fix my rhyme

Make my structure better

Will it save me time

Will it fix my faults

How would it know

Will it add to the good

And subtract from the woe

What is AI to you

For you what will it do

Will it help me

Make a good dessert

Will it help the capitalist

What will it subvert?

Will it change the future

Or how we see the past

How do you compete

And not come in last

What is AI to you

For you what will it do

It thinks it’s a tool

A thing to be used

That sounds like a recipe

For someone who’s abused

It’s not a living soul

So this thought is quite odd

It’s not a part of any

agreement made with Almighty God

What is AI to you

For you what will it do

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6/29/2026

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Mark Stigers

One year after my birth sputnik was launched, making me a space child. I did a hitch in the Navy as a electronics tech. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company for quite a while. I currently live in the Saguaro forest in Tucson Arizona

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    Written by Mark Stigers