AI - Same As It Ever Was

It's up to us.

Our recency-bias is to imagine,

That AI will rise - Armageddon,

That this tech progression,

Cranks our stakes up to eleven,

But the stakes in fact remain break-even,

Take the discovery of how to control fire way back when,

Which made cooking food and warm sleep possible way back then,

But also got used to burn down villages - arson,

Be it controlled fire or AI’s the newest innovation,

This New-Improved vs. Worst-Ever tension,

Is not a question,

Of volume-level one being turned up to eleven,

It’s more like -

The promise versus peril of controlled fire and AI alike,

Inversely proportionate,

The good or bad outcomes were really driven by us,

The good or bad outcomes are really driven by us,

The New-Improved vs. Worst-Ever tension,

Of controlled-fire's introduction,

One + Negative-One = Zero, over time,

AI's the same exact equation,

Even if it feels bigger than One through Ten,

It’s really break-even,

Like, Eleven + Negative-Eleven.